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Topic: Benito Mussolini

President Donald Trump holds up a model of his proposed triumph arch at the White House on Oct. 15, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's monument fit for an emperor

Benjamin Jasnow
Xi Jinping, Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

So much for "efficient" dictatorships

Mike Lofgren
Elon Musk | "Aeroritratto di Mussolini aviatore" by Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Wikimedia Commons)

Is Elon Musk actually a futurist?

Matthew Rozsa
Benito Mussolini and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mussolini: Donald Trump's role model?

Matthew Rozsa
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Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

We escaped the "Mussolini moment." Maybe

Elayne Clift
Donald Trump (Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty Images)

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump's coup isn't over

Dean Obeidallah
(Getty/Rick Loomis)

"Incivility" and the rise of fascism

Henry A. Giroux
Adolf Hitler; Madeleine Albright; Donald Trump (Getty/AP/Salon)

Fascism, Trump and Madeleine Albright

Andrew O'Hehir
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Steve Bannon; Benito Mussolini (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Bannon's big praise for Mussolini

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Benito Mussolini (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump fans: Left loves Hitler!

Matthew Sheffield
Donald Trump (AP/Susan Walsh)

On Trump's "fascist tactics"

Chauncey DeVega
Benito Mussolini; Ruth Ben-Ghiat; Donald trump (AP/Evan Vucci/CNN/Montage By Salon)

Trump "looks like Mussolini"

Chauncey DeVega
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Donald Trump; Benito Mussolini (AP/Richard Drew/Salon)

Comparing Trump and Mussolini

Anis Shivani
(Salon/Mireia Triguero Roura)

America: Forget about it

Anis Shivani
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2013 file photo Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, emerges from the party's Munich headquarters. Historical documents show Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time in Landsberg prison. (AP Photo/file) (AP)

John Broich - The Conversation
(AP)

Does fascism have morality?

Paul Rosenberg
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Donald Trump (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
Torkild Rieber, Francisco Franco (AP/Wikimedia)

The oil man and his dictators

Adam Hochschild - TomDispatch.com
Supporters cheer on Donald Trump in Norcross, Ga., Oct., 10, 2015. (AP/John Amis)

Bob Dreyfuss - TomDispatch.com

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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Trump, Noah, fascism

Brendan Gauthier
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli in "The Conformist"

A '70s masterpiece returns

Andrew O'Hehir
A couple walks past electoral posters of People of Freedom party reading: "February 24-25 Vote People of Freedom, Berlusconi for President", in Rome. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Paul Ames - GlobalPost

Paul Waldman - The American Prospect
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