As Italy votes, worth re-reading Umberto Eco's brilliant 1995 essay on 'Ur-Fascism.'
"Italian fascism was the first right-wing dictatorship that took over a European country, and all similar movements later found a sort of archetype in Mussolini's regime."https://t.co/VPmDs3KAgy

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 25, 2022