26 July—Here are pictures of two generations and iterations of Blackshirts. The top one, from 1923, depicts Benito Mussolini’s Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (Voluntary Militia for National Security), commonly initialized MVSN and unpopularly known as Camicie Nere (Blackshirts). Il Duce himself is in the middle and his thugs are actually wearing black shirts, or so it would appear in the black-and-white photograph.

The bottom photo, from 2025, depicts Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Esecuzione dell’immigrazione e dogane and in the circumstance Einwanderungs und Zollbehörde), commonly acronymed ICE and unpopularly known as Blackshirts (Camicie Nere and in the circumstance Schwarzhemden). Der Drecksack Führer (essentially il pezzo di merda in capo in the circumstance) is not in the picture and his thugs aren’t actually wearing black shirts, as is evident in the color photograph.

The Blackshirt moniker for ICE thugs must therefore come from the color of the ICE ballistic-resistant (i.e., bulletproof) vests they wear these days.

Note that Mussolini’s Blackshirts in the picture aren’t armed nor wearing masks but are wearing medals for who knows what, while Trump’s Blackshirts are armed (the one in front appears to at least have a holstered Taser) and wearing badges and the very sort of masks commonly worn by terrorists and other criminals. In the interest of accuracy, however, Mussolini’s Blackshirts usually were armed and dangerous . . .