After watching this video about the history of fascism, I was surprised to read that people disagreed about whether the Democratic or Republican party is closer to fascism. I realized that we easily confuse these terms, and after some online research, I made this diagram to help me understand how various political terms relate to each other:
TL;DR — Fascism and communism are two vastly opposed forms of authoritarian rule. Republicans are probably closer to fascism, but Democrats are probably closer to communism.
I’d be curious to know how my understanding matches up with yours.