It's also very counter productive, because no-one likes a fascist. Fascists don't have friends. Fascists will always throw other fascists under the bus.

Except Clara Pettaci. She stood by her man Mussolini after the Partisans told her to get her dumb ass out of the way. So she died for love. For Benito Mussolini of all people. Know what ? I've long lost track of the point I was trying to make. Rat and fascist thought and behavior are the same.

That insecurity is exactly why the best way to deal with them is to mock them hard and openly for what they say - don't even lower yourself to "debating" them, just directly attack their insecurities and they'll shrink right down because they need the validation that what they're doing isn't wrong