80 years after Benito Mussolini’s death, what can democracies today learn from his fascist rise?

80 years after Benito Mussolini’s death, what can democracies today learn from his fascist rise?

Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them seriously enables their success.

With the death of the dictator and Hitler model Benito Mussolini, the fascist era in Italy ended in April 1945. Fascism, however, has not died out there. [more]