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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 09:34 AM Mar 2018

Bannon: 'I'm fascinated by Mussolini'

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 03/16/18 09:08 AM EDT

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon says he is "fascinated" by former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

In an interview published Friday in the British magazine, The Spectator, Bannon praised the fascist strongman's "virility" and "fashion-sense," calling him a "guy's guy."

"He was clearly loved by women. He was a guy’s guy. He has all that virility," Bannon said. "He also had amazing fashion sense, right, that whole thing with the uniforms. I’m fascinated by Mussolini."

Bannon, who is touring Europe, has faced accusations in the U.S. of promoting racist and fascist politics, though he has identified himself as a populist. He told The Spectator that "fascism" was a term used to smear populism. He also insisted that the two — populism and fascism — "are not even related."

"Populism, fascism – who cares? It’s a media smear of the populist movement," he said.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/378757-bannon-im-fascinated-by-mussolini

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peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
13. Yikes!
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 10:10 AM
Mar 2018

Well, that's mega-creepy, a curse from the grave edge. Or scaffold, I guess. Mussolini was hanged was he not?

Still, really creepy. And it's not a stretch to see the similarities.

peggysue2

(10,823 posts)
16. LOL!!
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 10:40 AM
Mar 2018

Too true. But jackasses like Trump and Bannon admire people like Mussolini, despot wanna-be's. The similarities come in some of Trump's posturing--jaw thrust out, the glowering pout, and then the crossed arm body hug. Makes him look constipated as far as I'm concerned but the Trumpster seems to be into these ridiculous poses.

The Imposter-in-Chief, all the way.

brush

(53,743 posts)
18. Funny it's Mussolini and not Hitler. Was Hitler too much for even them? Nah, they're Nazis-R-us...
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 10:51 AM
Mar 2018

Mussolini just had better uniforms and matching hats—blue ones, black ones, shiny boots...all kinda colors, and that chin thrust to beat all chin thrusts—whereas Hitler always wore that same drab, brown uniform and babbled on and on endlessly.

Who can blame them .

dalton99a

(81,404 posts)
11. "An elderly woman emerged from the crowd and screamed"
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 10:06 AM
Mar 2018
"I was there when they brought them down from the northern Apennines," Stone said. "They were hung up in Milan upside down. It was a terrible thing to see."

He said at one point, an elderly woman emerged from the crowd and screamed at Mussolini's body for taking the lives of her seven children.

"She cut him down to the ground," Stone said. "She jabbered something in Italian and shot Mussolini with her Beretta. She did the same thing, seven times, before throwing the gun down on him.

"She cried so hard," he said.

https://www.army.mil/article/124189/feeding_an_army_10th_mountain_vet_recalls_wwii_experiences_cooking_for_comrades
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
20. Yes, I would like to see a few members of the Trump administration - both current and former
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 11:27 AM
Mar 2018

- end up the same way. Bannon must be on his last liver cell by now, what the hell is he doing touring around Europe? Does he really think he's relevant? I imagine he thinks that after Trump goes down he is going to rise up in his place or something.

Mrs. Ted Nancy

(462 posts)
7. Someone should remind Steve
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 09:58 AM
Mar 2018

Mussolini was executed.

Note: I am not advocating that Steve meet his demise in the same way il duce did.

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