[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"Y’all do realize “antifa” is just short for “anti-fascists…” right?”

You do realize that

As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,

'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and [already in 1939!] it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’

— F A Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (May, 1945 Reader’s Digest Condensed Version)

[a fool in paradise]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

George Orwell wrote in 1944:

...the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print.

I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else ...

Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathisers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.[51]

[Mr. Jeeves]

"Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion..."

That's exactly where China is. Deng Xiaoping proved that Marxist economics could be waived whenever it empowered the State to do do - and today the Chinese Fascist Party is more powerful than ever.