Perhaps the modern world has softened the term fascist dictator by using it for regimes to which it only partially applies. The generalissimo used forced labor

Perhaps the modern world has softened the term fascist dictator by using it for regimes to which it only partially applies. The generalissimo used forced labor not unlike the DPRK, made widespread use of concentration camps, and was quite fond of executing dissidents. All religions other than Catholicism were outlawed and all political parties were outlawed. Why would opposition to a murderous dictator be a bad thing? It isn’t as though the protestors/rioters/rebels were the ones escalating the situation. The government was already killing people. This could easily be viewed as justified violent opposition in the pursuit of stopping more murder.