Why was Mussolini popular in the US?

Answer 1

Crazy as it sounds in 20ll, there were people, even in the United States, that thought that a highly organized, centralized, non-elective ( Big Brother) though that term was not in use then, type government could control crime, poverty, reduce accidents- and so on. They cited such examples as the authoritarian trend of modern industry- and there were even some novels and radio dramas that seemed to show a ( Big Brother- each one watches out for the other)- or red-tape ridden governing body as a sort of safety net. One example was the radio drama (Long Distance) Herbert Hoover was well aware of this tendency ( before the Depression, by the way) and authored a book called The Challenge to Liberty, which is very rarely read today. on the other foot- or boot- a writer named Sidney Sheldon, not the ( other side of midnight) bloke, wrote a book in the twenties called In His Steps today, that advocated a virtual Religious Dictatorship! so it goes Easy going, or Hut-234 Washington style. It takes all kinds.