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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
3/7/2023
Face It: CPAC Was a Mussolini Moment
by Will Bunch
After Trump's CPAC speech promised that he'd be an instrument of retribution against his followers' enemies, it's time to stop tiptoeing around the historic parallels, writes columnist Will Bunch.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
2/17/2021
The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini
Katy Hull's book looks to four American fascist sympathizers to conclude that the appeal of fascism reflected anxieties about how the United States could function as a world power and connect communitarian values with national progress.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/6/2020
Il Donald
by Anne Applebaum
Although Mussolini's displays of pomp seem ridiculous, they are understandable as theater, in which the leader associated himself with symbols of Italian greatness. There is no contemporary comparison to be made....
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SOURCE: Zocálo Public Square
8/13/2020
What We Don't Understand About Fascism
by Victoria de Grazia
It is less useful to draw comparisons between today's right-wing politics and past fascist parties than it is to understand how broad crisis in society resembles the conditions from which fascism arose.
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3/1/2020
What Mussolini and Hitler's Rise to Power Can Teach Us about Opposing Trump: Unite, Unite!
by Walter G. Moss
The luxury of voting third party or not voting at all is no longer a sensible option for anyone wishing for a USA we can cherish.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
November 14, 2019
A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead review – a riveting tale of resistance in Turin
by Tobias Jones
A gripping narrative within A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead of four extraordinary women who delivered intelligence, letters and weaponry in the cause of resisting the German occupation of Italy
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9/15/19
Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.
by Claudia Koonz
Trump is not a despot. But neither were Mussolini and Hitler early on.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/12/19
After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom
by Richard Gunderman
People all over the world need to remember that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-8-2018
A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy
Antonio Scurati, the author of “M,” sees his book as an anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel. Others disagree.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
10-24-18
“I am a Nationalist” – Donald Trump apes Mussolini in Drive to destroy America
by Juan Cole
He is, of course, saying this to shore up support among white nationalists.
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6-26-18
There Are Even More Parallels to the ‘30s and ‘40’s than You Suspected
by Luke Reader
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it rhyme. But it does give us insight. We should pay attention.
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SOURCE: The Spectator
3-14-18
‘I’m fascinated by Mussolini’
by Nicholas Farrell
Steve Bannon on fascism, populism and everything in between
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2-22-18
The fascist movement that has brought Mussolini back to the mainstream
Italy’s CasaPound has been central to normalising fascism again in the country of its birth. Now they’re trying to enter parliament.
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SOURCE: Oxford Daily
4-24-17
Trump is no Hitler – he’s a Mussolini, says Oxford historian
There’s good news and bad news in parallels from the 1930s, warns Professor Margaret MacMillan, outgoing warden at St Antony’s College.
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SOURCE: Cambridge Network
4-5-17
Historian Richard Carr reveals Chaplin’s praise for Mussolini
A new biography released later this month sets out the true nature of screen comedian Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with fascism – one which was far from black and white.
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3-19-17
The Scary Parallels Between Trump and Mussolini
by Mark Bickhard
And between Fascism and Trumpism.
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SOURCE: THE Conversation
12-11-16
How the media normalized Hitler and Mussolini
by John Broich
They treated Hitler as a joke and praised Mussolini for restoring the economy.
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SOURCE: CNN
2-17-16
Mussolini's Italian hometown plans fascism museum
Predappio is a pilgrimage site for far-right militants and people nostalgic for the Mussolini era.
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SOURCE: UPI
4-23-14
Mussolini's birthplace in Italy to get a fascist museum
A museum dedicated to the history of fascism will be created in Predappio, Italy, the birthplace of dictator Benito Mussolini, Mayor Giorgio Frassineti announced.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail
4-15-14
Italian forces in WW2 were not soft and Mussolini wasn't a clown, British historian claims
The historian says that Benito Mussolini was Adolf Hitler's 'role model'
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