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Originally Posted by peter12
Mussolini was enormously popular with Italians in the mid-1930s.
If you read my above post, I clarify what I meant.
Fascist Italy is a fascinating study.
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Italy, Germany. We're arguing about a false dichotomy here.
People are not saying what happened in Germany or Italy will happen in the states, a river always carves a valley but never takes the same path. But we are saying is they are digging a valley, allowing bag actors to do damage to their institutions in similar ways, it may be true that they are starting with stronger institutions, but they already become a lot weaker than any of us had ever anticipated, and its time to call it out for what it is.
Minimizing what comparisons do exist because they are cliche at this point is pretty counter productive to the when we all need to be ringing alarm bells at this point.
I'd recommend listening to the opening monologue, of the most recent episode (The Crisis isn't Trump, its the Republican Part). he probably does a better job of articulating an appropriate level of alarm that I can.
https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast