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You know a latin word doesn't mean a political structure. Classical liberalism developed in the early 19th century, about 1800 years after the Romans.

And knowing what freedom means is one thing, but putting it into practice it certainly doesn't mean "no external regulations on any business between consenting people." Between you and I if I make a widget and you like widget and want to buy it-- what are you going to buy it with? Money? did we make the money? Agree on its value? or is that an external regulation? What if you're making a product next to my kids daycare, and it starts poisoning my kid and all my neighbours kids? Are we free to not be poisoned? Or does your freedom over-ride my kids? You concent to sell your product to another concenting people, but if you poison my land and water and life in the process of your freedom we have two choices; either we regulate, or we come after you with pitchforks.

>Fascist commonly means authoritarian

Utter BS, broflake. Fascist has a definition. Especcially an economic definition. Sure they end up authoritarian and dictatorial (like kings and communists) but the common meaning is the $$$

Maybe read some Guerin or get your hands on Harvard's breakdown heck, even SohnRethel's Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism could help you clarify what's happening. Though don't overlook Arthur Schweitzer's Big Business in the Third Reich. If you read these and still think the antifa are the fascists now, there may be no hope for smusalmon.

> Being popular is one thing, but how can he be this close to mainstream considering this just boggles my mind.

I know it can seem mind boggling but with further contextualization of the current socio-political situation and historical investigation it shouldn't come off as a huge surprise.

Capitalism is in a state of serious crisis. What the capitalist class is doing by inviting JBP to their liberal media outlets is testing the waters. They want to see how big of a social base is available for this type of ideology and outlook. They know the conventional bourgeois democratic method of maintaining their rule is faltering; so they are preparing for plan B (fascism) in terms of being able to stay in power.

It might seem like I'm just pulling this out of my ass, but like I said before, it is important to conduct historical investigation of the capitalist system being in a deep state of crisis. Here is a book that takes up this very topic:

Fascism and Big Business

The title is a bit misleading because it covers a lot more than simply big business support of fascism. To see what I mean, here is the table of contents.

qualifying trump as a fascist shows how ignorant you are on the matter

the banks, the military complex and the big corporations are in power for a long time! Controlling the economy, the media and the politics

crying like a little girl because they're gonna elect another silly puppet is a waste of energy, that's only a spectacle for the fools

here, have a read: http://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Big-Business-Daniel-Guerin/dp/0873488784