“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with an intensity of intolerance towards other races, parties, classes, religions…The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
Henry Wallace
Seems a little closer definition to the progressive movement than to call them socialist.