Fascism; What Is It?

Well I see no point in arguing about what is the true meaning of "fascism" when everyone  seems to define it as including anyone but me.   I am still working my way through the Goldberg book and I find it to be quite intelligent, and well worth reading. Just delete the word "fascist" everywhere you find it and read it for the points he makes about the ideas that have won so much popularity among vast segments of the intellectual classes the past 100 years.   Frankly, I have little trust in what "professors" in the current university classes have decided, as their thinking represents the problem to me. 

    I tend to look at politics on this axis. On the one had are those who prefer freedom, free markets, and regard government as a necessary evil to be kept in check and minimized.  Government is dangerous because people are fallible and greedy and not to be trusted with too much power.   Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

On the other hand are those that distrust freedom, distrust free markets, distrust businessmen and corporations and prefer that government would control as much as possible.   For example, all those persons in this country who want to replace a free market for medical services and replace it with some sort of single provider government system.    Such people distrust human beings, except people who work for the government.  On the far extreme you would have some kind of Socialist state where the government owns the means of production. 

 You can label these two poles any name you like.   The little end and the Big end, the browns and the blues.  It is the basic concepts that matter. 

Why some people trust government so much, and some so little is an interesting question, which I do not know the answer to.  I would love it if you would explain it to me.