It's not a separate issue. Mussolini failed like any other authoritarian. The obsession of some Conservatives with "authoritarian Christian movements" is as cringe as lefties going around and telling people that "real Communism has never been tried". And the sad thing is that it's mostly young lonely guys who scream "Deus Vult" and think that if they would live in a Christian dictatorship their problems would be solved. But in reality they would end up even worse, e.g.:
I don't need to address something that failed and wouldn't work in today's world. The Greek Empire did good for a few centuries. The Ottomans did great for a few centuries. The Romans did good for a few centuries. The Persians did great for a few centuries. The Mongols did great for a few centuries. The Vikings did great for a few centuries. And all of them are dead and nobody uses their form of government today, besides failed states no one wants to deal with.
Authoritarian governments are as successful as Communist ones.
And then he ended up swinging from one, like all other authoritarians.
It's not a separate issue. Mussolini failed like any other authoritarian. The obsession of some Conservatives with "authoritarian Christian movements" is as cringe as lefties going around and telling people that "real Communism has never been tried". And the sad thing is that it's mostly young lonely guys who scream "Deus Vult" and think that if they would live in a Christian dictatorship their problems would be solved. But in reality they would end up even worse, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentalism)
I don't need to address something that failed and wouldn't work in today's world. The Greek Empire did good for a few centuries. The Ottomans did great for a few centuries. The Romans did good for a few centuries. The Persians did great for a few centuries. The Mongols did great for a few centuries. The Vikings did great for a few centuries. And all of them are dead and nobody uses their form of government today, besides failed states no one wants to deal with.