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"Bourdain is something of an archetypal 21st century New York liberal — a sophomoric character masquerading as an intellectual who uses his relatively extensive vocabulary to disguise the fact that his understanding of politics appears roughly on par with that of a coddled millennial who was never exposed to real history."

Anthony Bourdain Likens Trump to Mussolini

CNN's culinary traveler implies post-2016 America comparable to fascist Italy

by Edmund Kozak | Updated 05 Dec 2016

... “You fall into a trance here, you think no matter what, this beautiful dream will last forever,” declares a thoughtful-sounding Bourdain before finally arriving at his point. “And then suddenly, sh** gets real,” he says, as the camera cuts to a photograph of Mussolini as foreboding, doom-filled music begins to play.

“Before World War I, Benito Mussolini was considered a bully and a crackpot, a short-tempered, ever pontificating soap box orator from the small town of Predappio,” Bourdain claims. “In time, though, the country was divided and in crisis — it saw itself as besieged by enemies within and without,” he continues.

“It needed someone who said he could make Italy great again. He was a man on a horse saying, ‘Follow me,’ and they did … It can happen anywhere. It can happen here,” he says finally.
While wholly inappropriate — if not dangerous — and demonstrably unjustified, Bourdain’s analogy is hardly surprising.

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