former was a little less openly frothing but still very anti-left and pro-law and order

Fascist Italy was acceptable because its ambitions did not interfere with the French or British (or American) spheres. it was not the degree to which their methods upset libs stomachs, their repression of the left was absolutely fine to libs, and was not nicer than the Nazis.

the Nazis were of course much worse to many more groups than leftists, but that was not the reason the allies actually fought them