ThinkProgress’s Ned Resnikoff has indulged in one of the favorite pastimes of the Center for American Progress — trying to link socialism to fascism. There’s a lot to unpack here, but for now I just want to look at two points:

1. Trump received support from William Johnson, chair of the American Freedom Party, “through his American National Super PAC.”

2. The American Freedom Party advances “a particular strain of white supremacism known as Third Position ideology.” Its “most important antecedent is Strasserism. . . .  Third Position [ideologue] . . . Benito Mussolini  —  the fascist leader par excellence   —  began his career in politics as a scribbler for various socialist publications; he would go on to smuggle elements of socialist thought into a right-wing, nationalist framework.”