There's a 15th characteristic of fascism that the article didn't mention: Grandiosity. Fascists make rediculous promises to fix everything, which they actually believe due to their delusions of granduer.
Obama isn't the first to promise us the moon. In 1950 President Truman (D) was making absurd promises, as shown by this editorial:
...Mr. Truman promises...by the year 2000.
In international affairs, there will be world peace. The atom will be under international control. The United Nations will be a going concern and will have forces to preserve international law and order. World commerce will be regullated under the new International Trade Organization. Other nations will share America's prosperity through an expanded Point Four Program of technical assistance to under-developed countries. Communism will be suppressed, not by force of arms, but by an appeal to the minds and hearts of men.
