Are Americans really so right-wing nowadays that fascists and anti-fascists are equivalent?

I'm really confused. I mean, I know that the Cold War had a major impact on American politics, shifting it to the right slowly as the fear/hatred of communism took hold in a big way throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It's just hard to imagine that someone like Obama would be considered "socialist" or "communist" when in most of the world he'd be a regular conservative. And now they seem to defend fascists, the thing their grandparents fought an entire war against and witnessed the horrors of first hand.

WTF, America?

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Yes, it's strange
A lot of propaganda though along with a poor education

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@SW-User It's kind of sad to see. When even the president won't outright condemn people like that straight away.....

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@SW-User He's perhaps one of the most twisted presidents there has been

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@SW-User Everything seems to have been going downhill since about the 80s, from what I can tell.

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@SW-User It's not only in the US,but the US is in a bad way!

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@SW-User I know it's not. But they're seen as the leaders of the world, so everyone wants to emulate them to some extent, don't they?

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@SW-User Nope, not at all. That is propaganda. For many Trump is a dangerous joke

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@SW-User Yes, he's seen that way here as well.

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@SW-User Where are you?

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@SW-User New Zealand. Hence my username.

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@SW-User Ah! OK!! :)
The US might see itself as the leader of the world,but no other country does! ;)
By the way, good observations, imho

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@SW-User :) Thanks.