If there is one word in the English language I would relegate to the annals of history, it would be "fascist." No more calling Bush a fascist. No more Islamo-fascists. Definitely no more fascist pigs.
Mussolini was a fascist. Hitler was a fascist. And, for them, the word had particular economic and political meanings. It was a brand of nationalistic authoritarianism that made sense (to them and their followers anyway) in a world dominated by the liberal democracies of Europe and the United States, and the radical Communism of Stalin and Mao.
However, the children of World War II veterans seem to have never really understood what it was their parents were fighting against, and so adopted the term to refer to anyone in authority they didn't like — particularly the pigs who ran Tricky Dick's FBI.
Now, the word is thrown at anyone we want to fight, be it Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, or Osama Bin Laden. We seem to believe calling someone a fascist or Nazi gives our battle against them the moral authority of WWII. Nevermind whether their ideology has any real equivalence to fascism. The point is they're bad guys who want power, and we don't want them to have it.
And, now that overuse has destroyed the power of "fascist" as an epithet, is it any wonder people have turned to calling each other "devil?" We might as well just evolve back to our playground selves and start calling each other "poopy-head."
Can you believe what our poopy-head president is doing in his fight against the islamo-poopy-heads? Of course, the femi-poopy-head from New York doesn't have a better plan, and I really hope she doesn't win in 2008.