There's always a strong possibility of that, all right, PoppaGator. Mind you, many young idealists with the best of original intentions end up as pragmatic and ruthless political leaders later in life...and some of them end up as outright tyrants. Mussolini's life story is interesting in that sense. He seems to have been motivated by 3 very powerful drives as a young man...

1. seducing women

2. fighting the social injustices of his time in the most flamboyant way possible

3. drawing attention to himself by any means possible

He started out as a passionate firebrand leftist. He eventually had a complete falling out with the Italian Left and became their deadliest enemy. Benito was never a man to do anything by halves. ;-) If you lined up all the women he had bedded in single file, they would probably have reached from Rome to Beijing....