Reed and Schumer are making a mistake. How would it help Bush and the Republicans for them to say: “Yes, we are talking about a new variety of Fascism, maybe even of Nazism. The movements utilizing terrorism against the US and other free nations are aggressive, they are supremacists, they disdain freedom and democracy, they are anti-Semitic and they are openly genocidal. In all those ways this threat echoes the Fascist/Nazi threat of the last century. So we must recognize this theat and defeat it, as we defeated similar movements and ideologies in the 20th century, under the leadership of FDR, a great Democratic president.“ It seems to me they would lose nothing. On the contrary, they would gain by not seeming to be muddled on national security. Is there something I’m missing here?