Mislabeling as a Tool of Political Warfare

By Matthew Hayward

1/19/2024 updated 10/16/2025

Gaslighting or projection? When individuals are labeled “fascist,” banned from platforms, removed from ballots, or intimidated for speaking at school board meetings, it is worth asking who the real authoritarians are.

This is not about disagreement; it is about control. The modern left and right both weaponize language to silence opposition. “Fascist,” “extremist,” and “bootlicker” have become political slurs used not to describe behavior but to delegitimize thought. Ironically, those who shout “fascism” the loudest often exhibit its defining traits: censorship, intimidation, and the suppression of dissent.

The same pattern appears with words like equality and inclusivity. Noble ideas on the surface, yet often twisted into tools of conformity. When inclusion demands ideological purity, it ceases to be inclusion. When diversity excludes differing opinions, it becomes tyranny disguised as virtue.

True liberty requires that we judge people by the content of their character, not the category they have been assigned by government, party, or mob. Freedom cannot coexist with collective guilt or ideological obedience. As Bastiat warned, the law should defend liberty, not become the weapon that destroys it.

Today’s “anti-fascists” claim moral superiority while defending censorship, surveillance, and state coercion, the very pillars of fascism itself. Whether through digital ID systems, speech policing, or social mob enforcement, the new authoritarianism no longer wears a uniform; it hides behind hashtags and bureaucracies. The antidote is not rage or violence, it is courage, truth, and the radical belief that every individual, regardless of label, deserves to think and speak freely.

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