When is a fascist not a fascist?

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But then again....

If someone could've shot Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pinochet, Franco, Pol Pot, etc, before they got power, should it be done?

It would, after all, be a clear breach of freedom of speech and a number of other human rights.

That depends. I have enough faith in democracy to believe that we'd never end up with such people by election results. The notion that these anti-fascists are preventing another holocaust by pelting a bunch of losers with eggs is laughable.

In the case of Hitler, I'd argue that the Weimar republic never became a functional democracy and the "free election in" 1933 was a farce.
Before Stalin became a dictator he was already a powerful politician in a despotic government.
Mao and Franco were fighting civil wars, and the alternative in either case was nothing to be particulary cheerful about either.
And as for Pinochet: if you killed him before the coup, you either had the amazing ability of predicting the future or you were a simple terrorist.