2 points.

First is that Russell Smith wastes valuable brainpower engaging in a philosophical debate with brownshirts.

Second is that only the deluded can pretend that the American right wing has not turned into a proto fascist movement with a wafer-thin commitment to democratic principles and freedoms. They are the enemies of our society. They want to turn the US and Canada into dictatorships. Hence the love affair between Trump and Putin and despots of all stripes.

They can't stop talking about freedom but their real agenda calls for the end of freedom and wholesale persecution of minorities. 

There is no real difference between the alt-right, which has infiltrated mainstream elements of the Republican party, and communists.