Mussolini’s pictures in Time Magazine during his visits to the USA is what really cued me into what i always felt was off about USA’s “business suit culture”.
for decades i could not articulate why corporate attire was something different from the mainstream culture even though it was iterated and forced into shopping malls everywhere i went as a teen and young adult.
it became more poignant when right-wingers went nuts over Hillary Clinton’s “power suits”, how dare her coopt GOPcore?… 🧵
MUSSOLINI KNEW THE AMERICAN FASCIST UNIFORM IS THE BUSINESS SUIT.
he would would get into the best of the Milan bespoke tailors to come to the USA to talk to fascists like Henry Ford and his conspiracy or American milliardaires.
and, just to hammer the point: USA was happy to give asylum to Ludwig Von Mises to escape the Nazis; yet his whole take on economics is underpinned by #eugenics. meanwhile USAGov turned away boats full of Jewish families to die by the hand of their fellow Nazis… 🧵