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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I guess you meant this to be less frightening but in truth Mussolini ran Italy for 20 years, was only brought down because he followed the guy that he inspired and partially created into a world holocaust that took 20 million or more to stop, Benito might have been a lesser evil but he was still evil and he inspired a worse evil that damn near burned it all down.
How long would democracy last in Canada or the rest of the world if we had El Presidente Trump and his kids in charge next door for 30 or 40 years, South and Central America have trouble retaining democracy at the best of times, they would fall back in to dictatorship in a heartbeat, we'd go next, we might last a decade or so but in the end some populist would harness the same fears.
If he hadnt inspired Hitler and followed him Benito would have been no more likely to fall than Franco and Salazar and Italy would have been ruled by the buffoon for 40 years
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Look, I didn't say it would be ideal or anything.