People applying the epithet have disarmed it. It's just a blanket term, now, meaning "I don't like you." Sort of like "genocide." Everybody "genocides" now whenever there is any sort of armed conflict at all and your side is losing. All those twentieth century terms used to invalidate the opposition have lost their impact, including:
Racist
Bigot
Pervert
Degenerate
Fascist
Nazi
Communist
Now, people either ignore them or, perversely, glory in them.