The rulers of Italy before the Romans were the "Etruscans", although it should be noted that the Etruscan dominance of the region was not even close to the Romans' in terms of power and political nature.
During the 1920s the red scare the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the rise of nativism were all sign of "paranoia" and "anti-radicalism," since these had to do with finding and persecuting communists.
