Yes Ronnie, Fascists have been historically associated with rightests, nationalists, and jingoists. However, many people just hear the word thrown out there and they apply it to someone without much thought about its meaning. To some extent, that's the result of efforts by conservative talk show hosts to associate the word with liberals and more particularly Democrats. I particular Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh do that. So, fasists, Nazi, communist, etc. get so homgenized that tye lose their distinctions from one another.