"I prefer incompetent evil to competent evil"

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Well, the ur-example of 'incompetent evil' would be the Nazis...

Wouldn’t that be the National Fascist Party?

The Nazis were deeply inept at the most basic aspects of governance in ways that the Fascists, at least early on, were not. Mussolini did not literally make the trains run on time (this is Italy we're talking about), but he was able to rule in a way that didn't require a morally insane plunder economy to sustain itself (although, of course, he chose to go in that direction anyway, a choice that says more about him than his innate tendencies or talents do).

Benito Mussolini experimented with all sorts of economic policies during his rule (partly in response to events and partly because he was delusional) and it sums up to an incoherent mess, but he was ultimately interested in economics and to an extent in materialism - after all he had eagerly followed Vilfredo Pareto's university lectures and had been a socialist, though he came to reject both - in a way Adolf Hitler was not.

I don't think it made much of a difference in the end, but it's telling that Italian fascism was so influenced by futurism (science! technology! speed! glass and steel! shiny new things! more and faster!) while Nazism owes just as much to 19th century Romantic mysticism about a mishmash of everything between a medieval pastoral society and the times when Norse gods roamed the Earth.