Islamo-fascists

I really don't have time for this, but I just heard W on NPR again referring to the "islamo-fascists" he's fighting.

This is a weird catch-phrase that has become core to the Republican talking points. And it's nonsense.

Fascism is a form of government, and one of the hallmarks of fascism is that it is highly centralized. There is one single leader. Not a nebulous crowd of nations of different languages and heritage, different beliefs, and different haircuts, whose only unifying trait is that they hate arrogant, stupid Texans.

Taking a scary word and applying it to something you want to make scary for everyone only works if the scary word has something to do with the object.

ITMFA.