MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show July 7, 2024
that the fascists were gonna try to take over. there are gonna try to mount a physical fascist coup. to defend against that, you wanted to call it the military to defend rome. to stop the coup. but the king at the time wouldn't agree to that. so the military wasn't called to defend the capital. and instead, what the king did is he caved to the fascists. he invited the leader of the fascists to form a government. to become the new prime minister. and the head of the fascists, enthusiastically, he agreed. the tens of thousands of his supporters who he had threatened would march on rome...
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