6. Benito Mussolini, Italy
Total Death Toll: 224,250
We are continuing our list of most evil elected presidents who killed the most people with Benito Mussolini who was voted Prime Minister in the general elections of 1924; Giacomo Matteotti, the only guy who dared denounce fascism as corrupt and therefore demanded a recount, was immediately murdered. I’m actually surprised someone spoke out, I guess he wasn’t quite aware of the hell that lied ahead. However unsavory the election was, he was voted for, so he has earned the honor of being on my most murderous, evil elected Presidents of all times.
People tend to bag Hitler and Mussolini together, but the truth is that even though he was one of the fascism’s founding fathers, the latter was way less vicious than the first -although he was in fact an A-grade a**hole. As stated here: “Mussolini was a bad leader. He made bad decisions; he launched campaigns without enough planning, he squandered assets, he generally was not much of a dictator. He did persecute his people, Communists especially”, but he never made it to his Austrian pal’s level. Also, he proclaimed himself “Il Duce” (The Duque), which is only something an absolute LOSER would do; it sounds like it could be the name of a lame barbershop quartet. Personally, I think “Il Douchebag” would have been more appropriate.
