and that starts with explicitly hard red lining any and all fascist speech and fascist rights.
I’m 50 and I’ve watched as the term “Fasciscm” has been redefined over the years. The difference between this wiki page from 2004 and today’s is eyebrow raising. In less than 20 years the definition has been expanded to the point where it arguably includes, via “subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation”, nearly the entirety of the modern day Democratic Party!
If declaring someone to be “fascist” allowed the Government to declare them an Outlaw then it will be weaponized to remove political opposition. Examples abound; China, Venezuela, Cuba, the USSR then Russia, Chile and a whole pile more. The instant that a Government gets the power to declare people Outlaws based on their beliefs they eliminate them, brutally.
I shudder every time I see someone spout off about “banning the republican party” for this very reason.
But I stand by this belief.
I believe that you are pushing this in good faith but I also have no, and I mean absolutely none, faith that such ability wouldn’t be massively misused. You don’t solve Authoritarian-ism by paving the way for Totalitarianism.