Umberto Eco’s “How to Spot a Fascist” is a tiny collection of three essays. In the UK it has been republished by Harvill Secker/Penguin. The author is somewhat of an authority. In 1943 he was ten years old and won a national Italian essay prize, arguing that one should indeed “Die for Mussolini and the Eternal Glory of Italy”. In Eco’s own words “I was a smart kid”.
Wasn't our government "Sick and tired of experts telling us what to do", at some time, not so long ago? Something like that anyway.