You see that the first of these addresses the other two, right? The reason fascism is a confusing term to some isn’t because there’s anything inherently confusing about something that’s been explained in everything from textbooks to comic books. It’s because the fascists are deliberately muddying the waters by bad faith use. And they will do that with every word, until all you have left to call them are weak generic terms like “liar” or “plusungood”, if you surrender the accurate terms each time.
I see no reason to think that the common understanding of fascism is so uselessly nebulous as being claimed, except among people who are trying to hide what it really means. You should listen to the historian on this. They make a habit of studying such things, you know.
