This is how Mussolini won over Italians:
“So then he promised to recreate the Roman empire's glory in a way that is nationalistic, anti-socialist, and anti-liberal.”
Sound familiar?
This is what happened. Sound familiar? Emergency powers, expel Jews (immigrants) .... control journalists (“fake news”)
“Mussolini’s first act as prime minister was to demand special emergency powers allowing him to rig elections in the Fascists’ favor. Soon after, the Italian parliament made suspicion of being anti-Fascist punishable by imprisonment without trial.
The next year police rounded-up Socialists, and the government restricted their publishing activities. A Socialist deputy plotted to assassinate Mussolini, but the betrayal of a friend led to his arrest just before the attempt. Several other assassination attempts followed.
In 1926, Fascists created a youth group called the Opera Nazionale Balilla, pressuring children to join. The Catholic Boy Scouts were dissolved and the formation of other youth groups became illegal.
The same year, all Communist members of Parliament were arrested, and all Socialist members expelled. Anyone who could not be prosecuted for a crime was detained for up to five years and placed in island internment camps.
Cinemas were required to screen government propaganda in the form of newsreels. Fascists owned 66 percent of the newspapers and controlled reporting, issuing daily editorial guidelines and threatening editors with arrest.
The Order of Journalists was created and membership was mandatory. Newspapers were allowed to criticize the government as long as they generally expressed support.”
WE DONT LIVE IN 1920s Italy and TRUMP IS NOT MUSSOLINI BUT ... the playbook is INTENTIONALLY THE SAME (think Bannon)
