Italian voters have spoken: enough of globalist chaos; environmental lunacy creating a bad economy built on an unrealistic green agenda; open-door, unvetted immigration; rigid Covid mandates; and diminishing personal freedom. Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy coalition party has captured a sweeping majority in Italy. It’s being widely smeared as the most right-wing government since Mussolini. Other coalition members include Matteo Salvini’s League, noted for its opposition to an open-door immigration policy, and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.
Here’s what Italy can immediately expect, based on the stated policies of the incoming government:
A review of rules on public spending and economic governance. Meloni has stated that her focus will be on “investments to boost Italy’s chronically weak economic growth but pledged responsibility in managing its debt-laden public accounts.” And as a fiscal conservative, she added: “I am very cautious.” She has also criticized the EU for its lack of foresight in pursuit of a green economy at any cost, accusing the EU of failing “to craft policies that would ensure available, affordable energy supplies. Sky-high energy prices, she declares, “have forced businesses and families down to their knees.”
The Brothers of Italy party is being attacked as far-right, “anti democratic” and a threat to personal freedoms, but the truth is that globalist governments have themselves proven to be the worst threats to democracy and personal freedom, while accusing the Right of everything they do. It is globalists today who are the exponents of the socialist ideology and who are willing to use violence to cancel our freedoms (especially the freedom of expression) and drive capitalist economies into the ground.
The Leftist Atlantic, in an article titled The Return of Fascism in Italy, asserted….
Meloni would also represent continuity with Italy’s darkest episode: the interwar dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.
Ridiculous. Just as Hitler was socialist (the Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party) yet is frequently referenced as “right wing,” Mussolini was also a socialist, called “right wing” when both were violent socialist Leftists.
Meloni refused to join Mario Draghi’s national unity government in February 2021, opposing his “tough coronavirus measures, notably the so-called Green Pass requiring workers to be vaccinated.” Meloni is also tough on open-door migration. Italy has been overwhelmed by North African Muslims illegally swarming in, and Draghi was lukewarm on the issue. AFP stated that Meloni’s party’s “anti-immigration positions and the protection of Italy from ‘Islamization,’” and also quoted Meloni as saying: “there is no room for nostalgic attitudes of fascism, for hypotheses of racism and anti-Semitism.”
The Associated Press describes Meloni as having a message that blends Christianity, motherhood and patriotism, while the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera says that her party “calls for the defence and promotion of Europe’s “Judeo-Christian” and classical roots.” Meloni has also been criticized by the Left for being anti-abortion.
A government that supports Judeo-Christian principles, rejects unvetted illegal migration and rigid COVID mandates, and is Eurosceptic sounds like a government on the right track. No wonder the Left is going heavy on the “far-right” and “fascist” smears.
Globalist EU leaders are now worried about a shift in the EU’s balance of power, as they should be, and about a Meloni alliance with Hungary. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has already congratulated Meloni on a “well deserved” victory.
“Populist Brothers” still sounds better than the “Justice Brothers” (apologies to Rush)!
Protecting your language, your religion and your history is not racist. The Italians have a proud heritage that is worth saving. If the Italians don’t protect it, who will? Through the election process the Italians showed their displeasure with an increasingly oppressive European Union who did not care what the Italian people wanted and their fierce opposition to mass immigration and open borders. Immigration is welcome when others come to join you to build a common culture, a unified government and legal system and a vibrant economy. Muslim migrants bring their own culture, language and sharia law. They also bring with them a long history of violence and intolerance. The Italian voter refused to accept what the Italian government and EU commanded of them. Some may call it “populism.” I prefer to call it “democracy”.
Unfortunately, it seems that Christine Williams haven’t done Her homework. Fratelli d’Italia is correctly labeled as post fascist, Fratelli d’Italia is the heir of the Italian Social Movement a neofascist movement created, in 1946, by nostalgic of Mussolini Italian Social Republic, allied with Hitler. d’Italia and Italian Social movement used the same fiamme tricolore as insignia. Georgia Meloni is maybe not a fascist be she is surely a nationalist conservative..
And you don’t think the EU is fascist? What planet are you living on?
Nationalism, family and conservatism are the antithesis of left-wing fascism. Socialist fascism destroys nations, it doesn’t improve them. Any socialist fascist who claims to be nationalist as Mussolini and Hitler did has been seriously deluded, and the delusions of those two tyrants has been well documented.
Conservative means something different in Europe: “… plans include free nurseries, employment protection for young mothers, an increase in welfare payments for families, and support for families with disabled people who are dependents.” It is Europe after all.
It’s her anti-immigration stance that interests me most. That will require courage on her part as the EU isn’t behind this. Because of Italy’s falling population, I think it could use some unskilled immigration. If I may suggest, why not seek out immigrants from Latin America. We have millions to spare or you can go to the source. They come from a European cultural background, are Christian, and speak a Romance language. They’ll be Italian in two generations.
They’re already buried in Muslims who don’t do anything. Hello? Earth calling Jason.
I understand Meloni is going to deny citizenship to children of immigrants. That could start a reversal.
Italy doesn’t lack “unskilled” labor. and Latin America needs to solve its own socioeconomic pathologies, not export them.
The media sure uses the term fascist fast and loose. If ANYONE called me that, they’d be lucky if they kept breathing.
It’s true that the Nazis had a socialist bent, if one considers a big part of socialism some or all state control. But the Nazis ( and the Italian fascists , Franco’s Spain and Portugal’s Salazar) were more exactly what was called “corporatist” ; not full state control , but mediating between a private sector and unfree unions, with a vision of national “unity” incarnated by the Absolute Leader and the sometimes deified State. . Stalin and his version of Marxism however ran everything directly. Also, it must be added that the more socialist and working class tendencies were wiped out (literally killed) by Hitler when he attacked Ernest Rohm”s SA wing of the Nazis after the State takeover.
The Nazis and the other corporatists were also traditionalists in the social sphere, like today’s American Right , but more virulently. Totalitarian Marxists, insofar as I can tell, have oscillated between traditionalism and open sexual and family morality. In China today for instance, it’s pretty open, whereas under the same regime 40-50 years go it was pretty traditional (all this according to a book I recently read about China).
On the whole then, the Nazis and their allies were RIGHT-WING. Everyone knows that. You people here just do not want to see that.
“Some or all state control” is the definition of socialism. Claiming such a non system is corporatism is asinine. There isn’t even any such thing as corporatism.
Your claim that China is “pretty open” shows that you’re not to be taken seriously.
It’s impossible for socialists to be right-wing. Everybody with a functioning brain knows that.
Enjoy your half-life in Fantasyland.
How strange is seems today when the label.. populists…is aligned with fascist, when I was always under the belief that populist was a person of that country while the Governments say they are of the people…
Newspeak is now a real thing.
Brava Meloni…Il popolo Italiano ascolta le parole ma guidica dai fatti (The Italian people listen to the words, but judge by the actions) Sounds promising. It is high time that Italians wake-up to liberty and free market principles and get away from the EU do-gooders, their kraven rent-seeking lackeys and the useful idiots in the media.
Italian culture is an amalgam of Europe and particularly the Mediterranean cultures it has encountered including pagan, Christian, Jewish and Muslim. Even today, within “Italy” there are still many dialects and variations of what was once called strictly a “geographical expression.”
However welcoming and hospitable they tend to be, to Italians it would be “mal figura” to be invited over for dinner and then bring your friends, too and then complain about the host afterwards. That is what we have here in the US today.