Mussolini emigrates to US

""...[O]n Italy itself the effect of such a mass exodus was incalculable. It was a safety valve and incidentally took away many anarchists and other undesirables--Mussolini himself, when out of work in 1909-10, thought of emigrating to the United States..." Denis Mack Smith, *Modern Italy,* p. 215 http://books.google.com/books?id=ut-OsMbeJNcC&pg=PA215

Two possible scenarios for Mussolini in America:

(1) A successful political career? During World War I he quits the Italian-language federation of the US Socialist Party because he objects to its antiwar stand and forms a brigade of Italian-American soldiers called the Fasci di Combattimento. He wins the East Harlem congressional seat La Guardia won in OTL and goes on to become mayor. Today there is a Mussolini Airport in northern Queens.

(2) Alternately, he could remain a radical, fall on hard times, and 1927 witnesses the still-controversial execution of Sacco and Mussolini...

Meanwhile, in the absence of Mussolini, would something like Fascism still come to power in Italy, led by d'Annunzio perhaps? Of course a d'Annunzio-led Italy would be rather peculiar even compared with Mussolini's: "The constitution [of Fiume] established a corporatist state, with nine corporations to represent the different sectors of the economy (workers, employers, professionals), and a tenth (D'Annunzio's invention) to represent the "superior" human beings (heroes, poets, prophets, supermen). The Carta also declared that music was the fundamental principle of the state..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_D%27Annunzio
 
(3) He hies off to fight in the Spanish Civil War, pisses off the winners, is refused reentry into the US, dies in a concentration camp somewhere in Spain or Europe.
 
He need not have settled in New York had he emigrated to the US. Philadelphia was developing a sizable Italian community in those days, as was Baltimore. It's not inconceivable that he might have settled in the Snyder - Oregon Avenue area of South Philadelphia, for example.
 
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