The point of the story is this: fascism has thrived by placing itself in opposition to communism and presenting itself as the lesser of two evils. 
But that was always a false dichotomy. There was never any need to side with the lesser of two evils (and frankly - I dispute the idea that it was any less evil - it was, at best, a different but equal evil and it only got to paint itself as less evil due to communism's association with atheism). There was always the good option of liberal democracy.

So I find it startling that you can sit here, 80 years later, and still believe the lie that Coughlin concocted back in the 1930s.
It was clearly wrong - since here we are 80 years later and the free world remains dominated by liberal democracies. They remain the most prosperous and successful nations on earth.

Remember, the west once allied with the USSR to defeat fascism.

Allying with the  fascist NP to defeat communism was never needed. Democracy was always the enemy of both, not either.