Someone's defensive....Which is why much of it is bankrolled by Americans for Prosperity and other corporate front organizations, right? If you want to use an example of an authentic mass political movement in the United States, take the antiwar movement during the Vietnam War period or the populist movement during the Long Depression. The Tea Party movement has been stoked and inflated with the aid of corporate money and free airtime from likeminded news organizations.
Are you making an assertion here that the New Deal was fascist and/or (if you don't know your political spectrum or ideologies) communist in its origin? The New Deal wasn't either of these, and its because of the New Deal that neither of these ideological persuasions took root in the United States during the depression. Had we stuck it out in favor of laissez-faire capitalism, we'd have had a socialist revolution or a fascist coup by the late thirties at the latest.
The New Deal was not fascist because from start to finish, it was achieved in the success of electoral politics and the democratic process. Whether it was all necessary is an argument worth having, as is whether the means employed to make or keep it law actually hold up to the preferences of its contemporary defenders is also an argument worth having.
However, even though it was not overtly fascist, there was support all over the globe for many, many crazy ideas, including the two Isms that defined the nineteen forties.
While it is true that the Right is utilizing the Tea Party movement to its advantage, it would be unfair to suggest that U.S. enemies did not make use of legitimate protests in the 1960's and later for their own political ends.