Do you have any link? Or am I supposed to take your word for it that you just happened to have 33+ year old dictionary lying around as evidence? Hint: not with your posting history.
Besides, you wrote “now” in the post I replied to so let’s see what Webster says:
a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
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1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized
autocratic government headed by a
dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control <<<
So it seems you lied about your reference as well