I have to wonder out loud whether many commenters actual took the time to read the article.

Because the responses seemed heavily skewed towards "Yeah, but..." responses that sort of ignore the article's main point.

The article's main point is that apparently, 10-15% of the population voting for unabashed fascists is a colossal policy failure.

Whereas I don't actually see that as a problem. In any given population, about ~10% of it is going to be sympathetic to fascism. That is what it is. It's an appealing ideology for a lot of people.

The problem is when you get closer to 40%, or 50%, and unabashed fascists start making their way onto first, and second-rate political party tickets, as opposed to ineffectively screaming into the void on third-rate ones. We've just had a bit of a brush with that, here. Not interested in repeating it.

And when the systems/mechanisms for them to oppress their opposition were already put in place in an attempt to limit them from getting that power in the first place.

If you go down the path of "censorship", you better get it right. Otherwise you'll probably be worse off in the end.

As the history of repressive governments has shown, they don't need any help in building these systems. Once they are in power, they really don't give two figs about how open and accepting your society was of viewpoints like theirs, and they can quickly assemble any instruments of oppression that they find lacking.

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. Do you really believe that because it isn't on Facebook people have stopped believing it? That people don't believe these things, teach their kids, find other avenues to organize? We have not censored anything away, ever, in human history. This article actually directly addresses that.

You're not hanging out in the correct circles or reading in the correct language. The proper nouns aren't there but the ideas and principles are. White supremacists spend more time praising police killings than they do saying "Heil Hitler". Change your language to Arabic and you'll see much more praise for the beheading of Samuel Paty than "praise IS"