Know the history of the words

Must we suffer the angsty rhetoric about “fascism” again? This time some are screeching that term about the East Bonner County Library Board election among other things, and their usage of it is just as factually and historically incorrect as it was in the last election cycle. Here’s a history lesson for those that skipped their modern European history classes:

The word fascism is derived from the Latin fasces, a bundle of rods surrounding an axe that was used by Roman magistrates as a symbol of governmental authority...