The liberal when young, conservative older saying has definitely been around a long time, but it's one of those things that has found its way to being attributed to Churchill, even though he didn't say it.

I grew up under Labour and Conservative governments both during the 70's and 80's, and - while Labour espoused very laudable goals - it took Thatcher to markedly improve the lot of working people, reinvigorating local authority services, and enabling people to buy their own homes. For OUR family, that gave us choices - BUT she also caused mass unemployment in reforms of heavy industry ; divisve is probably right . Many hated her,

NONE of which though is fascism. And our Parliament - the world's first - still stands as testament.

What the US is currently countenancing is a society where the ruling party actively identifies 'others' as being the root of all their problems - so, tolerance and diversity is not allowed - quite against your own history.

Fascism projects it's fear onto others - instead of stepping up to meet a challenge, liability is attributed to others (foreigners, trans, gays)

And - to fulfil a fascist agenda -  you have a President who must rank as the Worst In History - even more foul than his first term. People literally being shot in the street. 

Such a shame that America's 250th anniversary is due to be overseen by a rampant orange clown.