His writings during the period, published in summer 1944 in the Corriere della sera, display the authoritarian’s capacity to blame others for the messes he causes. “It’s not surprising that people destroy the idols of their own creation. Perhaps it is the only way to bring them [the idols] down to human proportions,” he wrote of his fall from power, as though his repression and incompetency had nothing to do with his fate.
