Most parties are named the opposite of what they do. The effective way to name a party is apparently to name it after a popular ideology. That's why both the Nazis and the Stalinists called themselves Socialists.

> Republicans might as well rename their party the Democratic Fascists of America at this point.

I'm reading Stefan Zweig right now, he was a prolific Jewish author from 1890s until his suicide in 1942, living as an exiled Jew from Austria in South America. He has written many words, over a century ago, that would support your claim.