I'm not sure "fascism" is adequate to describe what the USA's once-constitutional government has changed into, but I don't know what else to call it. At least Bush had the moral insight (at some level) to recognize that torture is wrong and so he lied and denied he authorized it. But Obama is clearly a different kind of "leader."
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Ralph Nader, "Obama At Large: Where are the Lawyers?," CounterPunch, 31 May 2012.
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Alexander Cockburn, "There’s a Cancer on the Presidency, Called Barack Obama," CounterPunch, 2-3 June 2012.