Everyman his own historian, I suppose. But Dingy Harry Reid doesn’t know the first thing about fascism, since he says that Hitler came to power by winning an election. Wrong. The NSDAP did well in an election, but the Conservatives formed the government. Hitler became Chancellor via parliamentary action. His electoral success came later. Ditto for Mussolini.

The important “electoral” fact–the terrible fact about the many countries that embraced it–about the fascists is that they proved enormously popular once they gained power. There was virtually no resistance until the war started to go badly for them.

CORRECTION: It was Jack Reed not Harry Reid.