[fishnchips]

Both Mussolini and Hitler were seen as bumbling fools by most of their contemporaries. Before they seized power, that is.

[sho_hn]

You are correct, and this is indeed a valuable lesson: https://archive.is/xh2Ci

I'm still sticking to the comment, even in awareness of history and having entertained the comparison. Let's hope I'm not proven wrong.

[danny_codes]

They weren’t wrong. Both led their countries through a series of terrible decisions that cost millions of lives and destroyed their own societies.

Bumbling fool seems apt to me.

[Breza]

A Washington Post columnist has been tracking the media coverage of Hitler's first 100 days. It's interesting how much people viewed him as bumbling or harmless or or or. https://www.instagram.com/petula_d/

[johnnyanmac]

you're right, but Hitler could live in the metaphorical shadows for years on end.

The information era works for and against us here in showing the truth but also efficiently spreading misinfroamtion. But moments of seeing them objectively on camera will eventually shine the truth.