Why was Mussolini able to rise to power and what was his continued basis for support?

Italy, the recently unified country of the 1920s, was in a very trying period of politics after the culmination of the First World War. Only one sole leader managed to emerge from this period establishing himself as "Il Duce" and making Italy very much a personal empire. This man was Benito Mussolini. Though, before the assuming of the glorious portrayed figure that he created he was very much a normal personality and in this essay I shall analyse the reasons for the transformation and the continued strengthening of power of Mussolini.
In order to understand Mussolini's rise to power it i…