Dear runners, here we need a linguist, but a really good one. This year, the marketing manager of the Democratic Party (whoever he is!), has outdone himself. Not so new for the Festa dell’Unità. Which loses the “a” and gains an accented *. Unit*’. You may ask: how do you do it with the asterisk? Is it not read? Is it an aspirate? Is it left to the imagination? Difficult to answer: you would have to rely on a linguistics expert or get into the head of the person who gave birth to it. There is certainly a politically correct hand that whitens the gender from the words. But even so it would make people laugh. Or, better yet, cry. If it had been Festa dell’Unità, then Laura Boldrini’s followers would have had a hold, albeit a weak one. In any case, for this terrible marketing ploy Ell* Schlein and their companions all get third place on the podium of the worst of this week.
The silver medal, instead, goes to Angel Bonelliin great shape. First, arm in arm with Nicola Fratoianni, he invents the crime of ecocide: up to twenty years in prison for those who damage the environment. Then, as if there were anyone who missed it, he reintroduces the wealth tax, dreaming of raking in the beauty of 60 billion euros from our savings (in the space of five years) to deal with the climate crisis and, secondly, the social crisis. And, while he is talking nonsense in Italy, in Europe his protégé Ilaria Salis is waving the flag of Anti-Fascist Action against the new fascists who, after Italy, also want to take over France. The transalpines have expressed themselves clearly but the progressives just can’t stomach it: if it doesn’t go their way, the popular vote will have to be subverted.
Another one who really doesn’t like it is Emmanuel Macron that this week we find at the top of our podium. First he argues with his arch-enemy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, so that in the second round the Rassemblement National cannot win or at least cannot put together enough numbers to form a government. Then, not content with these plots, he places six important appointments in extremis to rein in Jordan Bardella in case he should prevail.
He is really willing to do anything to prevent Marine Le Pen and the right from governing. He is very reminiscent of the left in our country that for eleven years, from 2011 to 2022, used every possible weapon to stay in power. Even though they did not have the votes to do so.