Protofascist

Even Lemon, for all her protofascist beliefs, wins our sympathy.

When Newt Gingrich and his protofascist comrades took over Congress in 1994, they sneeringly boasted that they intended to take the federal government back to the 1920s.

The Social Darwinists are sometimes considered protofascists.

That congressman is a protofascist.

Along with stereotype-mongering phrases like “redneck America's life in the electronic theme park,” he occasionally reduces his countrymen to mindless proto-fascists.