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This country doesn't need a hero like Trump! (Original Post) imanamerican63 Apr 2020 OP
Oxymoron: Hero and the dumpster in the same sentence. IllinoisBirdWatcher Apr 2020 #1
Repeat? Newest Reality Apr 2020 #2
Trump couldn't pick a hero out of a massive police live up Under The Radar Apr 2020 #3
Why stick with Zero tRUMP when we can have Hero Biden? abqtommy Apr 2020 #4

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. Repeat?
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 06:04 PM
Apr 2020
German-American historian Konrad Jarausch has argued that Mussolini was responsible for an integrated suite of political innovations that made fascism a powerful force in Europe. First, he went beyond the vague promise of future national renewal, and proved the movement could actually seize power and operate a comprehensive government in a major country along fascist lines. Second, the movement claimed to represent the entire national community, not a fragment such as the working class or the aristocracy. He made a significant effort to include the previously alienated Catholic element. He defined public roles for the main sectors of the business community rather than allowing it to operate backstage. Third, he developed a cult of one-man leadership that focused media attention and national debate on his own personality. As a former journalist, Mussolini proved highly adept at exploiting all forms of mass media, including such new forms as motion pictures and radio. Fourth, he created a mass membership party, with free programs for young men, young women, and various other groups who could therefore be more readily mobilized and monitored. He shut down all alternative political formations and parties (but this step was not an innovation by any means). Like all dictators he made liberal use of the threat of extrajudicial violence, as well as actual violence by his Blackshirts, to frighten his opposition.[92]


[emphasis is mine]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini



Last time around, it didn't turn out so well for Benito.
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