Every time Alessandra Mussolini writes something on social media in favor of rainbow rights, the trans world, DDL Zan and Gay Pride – recently it has happened with a certain frequency – we instinctively check the account to see if it is a parody. We don't know why, but our thoughts go back to the time that on a talk show, arguing with Vladimir Luxuria, and making her mascara melt, she shouted: “Better fascist than fagot.” It was 2008. And not even twenty years have passed.
Then yesterday we read the interview that Mussolini gave to La Stampa, the house organ of the LGBTQ Community, in which she accuses Giorgia Meloni of having lagged behind on abortion, gender identity, civil rights, women's salaries too low And we thought two things. The second is that now all we need is another Mussolini to bring us back to socialism; and that's not really the case, given how it went last time. The first is that the granddaughter of the “Father of Italians” is ready for the Democratic Party, and vice versa. It would be the latest in a long series of champions of the right smoothed over by the left, unaware puppets of a comedy that has always ended in farce. The anti-Berlusconian Montanelli applauded for a summer at the Feste dell'Unità. He ended up supported for a legislature by the Republic party. Flavia Perina, former AN rider, became the maîtresse à penser of the Democrats.
And let's keep quiet about the Ladies of Arcore who became the Saints of the Nazarene.
The changes of perspective in life – let's be clear – deserve respect and admiration. Except that the broader the perspective, the deeper, usually, the betrayal.