What Is Soft Fascism, Anyway?

I keep writing about soft fascism. Why is that, anyway? Soft fascism is a process of anti-democratic governing that is not as overtly totalitarian or authoritarian as more historically memorable...

it seems perhaps there is a need to either define soft-fascism clearer
or
get a different new term that gets rid
of #fascism
since when the historical reference is slightly vague and speculative at best -
the severity of what is going on seems to slip away..