2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

I think that most rational people would agree the already-existing baskets should be distributed instead of being left to rot, so the president deciding against that in order to strengthen his position could be seen as tending towards autocracy or dictatorship.

many parents then can be called fascists - they exercise strong autocratic or dictatorial control over their children. diluting the "fascist" term is a huge disservice to countless victims of real еvil.

Related: I've begun to put people who are extra-pedantic about the word fascist into their own little silo.

I don't know what you mean by extra-pedantic but the site guidelines ask users not to call names in arguments, and that certainly covers the F-word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

one doesn't have to be extra-pedantic to see the difference between rotting card box and gas chamber.