[dragonwriter]

> Yeah no, you don't get to dismiss half the population as "fascist".

The Republican Party isn't half the population, and, even if it was, it is quite possible for half or more the population of a country to support fascism. Popularity isn't a rebuttal to accusations of fascism.

[dllthomas]

Popularity is a rebuttal to dismissal, although it is not clear to me whether that's actually what was going on.