Dear Director Feltri, after this further victory for Giorgia Meloni and the centre-right, therefore the proof that the Italians want and confirm Meloni, will the left stop repeating that fascism has been restored in Italy? We can't stand this anymore.
Dear Italo,
no, the left will not stop repeating that fascists are in government, that Giorgia Meloni is a danger to democracy, that Italy, and now Europe too, is overwhelmed by the black wave, which is necessary, for the purpose to save democracy and freedoms, curb the right-wing and similar things. What other arguments have progressives shown they have for opposition? They continue to ride on a sterile theme that has been outdated for decades, to foment a sort of fear of a possible return to fascism, but it is a failed strategy in the adoption of which the left has obtusely persisted, although it has less and less influence and effect on an electorate now annoyed by a certain falsified and instrumental narrative. I struggle to understand this obstinacy, which is evidently the result of a serious crisis, of an absence of arguments, of a lack of identity. He tries to build the latter by clinging to a past that is now dead and distant. And so there is talk of the fascist danger on TV, in newspapers, on social networks. “I am anti-fascist” is the first statement you hear from any left-wing candidate or politician, as Ilaria Salis did directly from house arrest. And we don't go beyond this repeated declaration as if it were a mantra. Meloni is the fascist against whom these valiant radical-chics fight. The fact is, however, that this alleged fascist is loved by Italians, who have shown that they place extraordinary trust in her and are satisfied with the way things are going in Italy. Those who are incapable of accepting it reject democracy and have contempt for its rules and also for the sovereign people. The opposition parties have tried in recent months to persuade us that the inhabitants of the peninsula were already fed up with the Meloni government.
Do you remember what happened after the narrow victory in Sardinia of the left-wing candidate? It was said that the real majority of the country no longer corresponded to the majority in power, early elections were even wanted, it was argued that the so-called “wide field”, constituted by the union of interests between the Democratic Party and the M5s, would triumph everywhere by returning to the leadership of the Nation. It was all fake. It was all evanescent, although enough to swell the chests of these gentlemen here, Giuseppe Conte and company.
Their biggest mistake: not only that of overestimating themselves and having always underestimated Meloni, but also and above all that of never having created a clear political program, limiting themselves to the slogan “fascism alarm” and the objective of countering the center parties -right.
Conte lost sensationally in this last round precisely because, instead of innovating and proposing, he asked Italians to vote by promising to make citizenship income a European measure.
Yet another attempt to buy citizens' trust through the promise of money. But the Italians no longer fall for it. And it's about time someone understood this and worked hard to present citizens with an alternative and not the usual reheated baby food.