Neither the US nor China is fascist. Fascism means something quite specific, and quite context-sensitive. It has unsurprisingly become a bad word after fascists

Neither the US nor China is fascist. Fascism means something quite specific, and quite context-sensitive. It has unsurprisingly become a bad word after fascists lost WW2, but it still means something beyond "dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, etc." It's like characterizing communism by mass starvation, political assassinations, etc. Clearly that's not what Marx was writing about, was it?