Well said.
I read Italian fairly well.
So it was easy enough to look up, in Italian.
The author of the line was Ignazio Pisciotta, an officer of Bersaglieri, serving as a staff officer at the Piave in 1918. He wrote the original grafitti. So on its face its Mussolini’s only at second hand.
However its not that simple. Mussolini, a veteran, led what amounted to a veterans movement, filled with, especially, ex-elite soldiers like the Arditi. A lot of the Great War military culture made its way into the fascist movement, including much of the wartime propaganda, and for that matter Italian fascism wasn’t much more than 19th century fanatical Italian nationalism-irredentism on steroids and out of patience.
This was a very common slogan of the regime, in fact it became a popular Italian saying. So its hard to say that there isn’t a fascist connection.
Of course the really silly thing is that people think anything of it. They quote Napoleon all the time, and he was a much nastier man than Mussolini.
VERY well done!
Hitler and Bernie called themselves “socialist” and that doesnt seem to bother the press at all
So all socialists are Nazis because Hitler led the National Socialist Party, right? That is, if you follow the “logic” of the left.
Oh, Rupert Pupkin said it better and more succinctly:
Better to be King for a day than schmuck for a lifetime!
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To the surprise of nobody, Mussolini relied on platitudes rather than original thought.
Nothing wrong with platitudes if they are accurate, but one shouldn’t attribute them to recent users of them.
Unless Trump knew it was a famous Mussolini quote(which is unlikely)and decided to retweet it anyway, this is nothing.