What if the Kingdom of Italy crushed Mussolini's March on Rome?

[raharris1973]

What if the Italian King, Government, and military Commando Supremo decide to crush and disperse the Fascisti 'March on Rome' with a "whiff of grapeshot" or some machinegun fire, aircraft buzzing and strafing and teargas, and some mortaring, if that's what-it takes.

Instead of cowardly reasoning that they may be totally dependent on Blackshirts against social revolution, the formal authorities of state don't like the cut of of their jib, nor the color of their shirts, and think they've got the Reds pretty much well in hand on their own, and dislike the unpredictability of the Fascisti and especially their ex-Socialist leader, Mussolini. Between the incoherence and at times occasional anti-clerical and especially anti-capitalist and anti-financial aspects of their leadership, the established authorities are thinking these thugs may be black shirts today, red shirts tomorrow, and put them down.

What happens afterward in Italian politics of the 1920s? How healthy/unhealthy is Italian parliamentarism from 1922 on through the rest of the decade? Does Italian Street fighting and paramilitarism calm down? Does Italy end up going under a more boring, traditionalist, military or civilian form of dictatorship? What are the knock-on effects for the politics of the rest of the neighboring European countries?

Presuming we still have the American, German, and global economic depression, how does that impact Italian, and then European politics and political extremism and violence?

 

[raharris1973]

One question about knock-on effects -

Without the example of Mussolini's *successful* 'March on Rome' leading to his appointment by the King as Italian Premier, would Hitler still be inspired to try his 1923 Munich Beer Hall putsch? This put him on trial and made him nationally famous. Also, Hitler was not the only would-be putschist in 1923 Germany, Bavarian Premier/Governor Gustav Kahr was thinking about it and rightist German figures like Reichswehr Hans Von Seeckt and Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz and others were discussing among themselves and supporters conditions that might justify either a quasi-legal coup or an undisguised military coup. And although lacking a *successful* example in this timeline, Hitler and other rightist Germans could at least look back upon the "noble attempts" of the Kapp Putsch in 1920 in Germany and D'Annunzio's multi-month Republic of Fiume, and Mussolini's doomed march.