Thursday, December 10, 2015

Il Duce



Some commentators (e.g. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post) have recently compared Donald Trump to the founder of European Fascism, Benito Mussolini.

Those of us old enough to remember World War II newsreels, are struck by the resemblance of Trump's body language when addressing a crowd to that of Mussolini.

Here, for example, is a film from that era showing Mussilini's rise to power: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=benito+mussolini+clips&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

Note the resemblance between Trump's hair and Mussolini's helmet. Or, for that matter, note the similar visual effect of Trump's baseball cap to that of Mussolini's helmet.

Watch the movie of Mussolini's speech. Looks just like Trump's delivery.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=benito+mussolini+clips&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

Amazing.


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