ANALYSIS – With the victory of Giorgia Meloni’s conservative ‘Brothers of Italy’ party in Italy’s elections, the left-leaning establishment media is having a field day falsely calling the new government ‘far-right,’ or even ‘semi-fascist’ to use a Joe Biden term.
But, like Biden’s outrageously false name-calling of Trump supporters, the media is likely wrong about Meloni, too.
While her party has roots in post-WWII movements created by fascist remnants, and there are some real far-right and semi-fascist parties in Europe, Meloni’s party isn’t one of them.
Meloni has also written clearly that she “does not belong to the cult of fascism.”
Based on most available evidence, Meloni, the country’s first woman Prime Minister, and her party, are traditionally conservative but not in any way extreme.
Unlike some of the other parties in her new coalition government that are known Putin appeasers (like former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right ‘Forward Italy’ party, and the ‘Lega’ party headed by Matteo Salvini), Meloni is a strong supporter of defending Ukraine and a vocal opponent of Russia’s aggression.
This alone should distinguish her and her party from the other right-wing populist parties in Italy and Europe.
On most topics, such as social issues, migration and skepticism toward the European Union, Meloni and her ‘Brothers of Italy’ party are simply traditionally conservative, and their associations across Europe attest to this.
As Daniel Kochis notes in The Daily Signal:
Today, Brothers of Italy aligns itself with conservatives. It is currently “a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the EU Parliament, which includes other conservative political parties, such as Poland’s Law and Justice Party, Spain’s Vox party, and formerly the U.K. Conservative Party.
These parties are sometimes lazily portrayed in the mainstream media as “far right,” but this is an unfair caricature. There are certainly radical, far-right parties in Europe, but those parties are not among them. Rather, by and large, they hold similar policy views to conservative Americans and most of the Republican Party membership.
Of course, to the left, the traditional conservative views of the Republican Party are now considered ‘extreme,’ but they aren’t.
What is extreme is the far left, socialist, open borders and radical ‘trans’ agendas currently infecting the Democrat Party.
Still, the left-leaning media can’t help itself, projecting their own anti-GOP sentiments onto other countries.
On CNN International, well-known liberal Christiane Amanpour repeatedly challenged the outgoing Italian ambassador to the U.K., Raffaele Trombetta, on Meloni’s party being dangerous due to having its ‘roots in fascism.’
As Newsbusters reported though, Trombetta argued that not only is Meloni not a fascist, but her party is a typical European conservative party:
I do believe that. … Also, if you also consider the very statement that they’ve been making before the election. Let’s talk about Russia for instance, they have been very supportive of Italian government actions, you know, to support Ukraine. So, yeah, I don’t see any danger at all.
Trombetta added that Italy is a democracy and conservatives simply make up a significant percentage of the population:
Well, I think if you look also at the elections over the years, it’s always the 40, 45 percent of the Italian people who are, let’s say, on the conservative side. Now, they may switch sometimes from one party to the other, but the bulk is there.
He also noted that in no uncertain terms: “Giorgia Meloni is actually the leader of the main party. They got a very solid majority from the Italian people. So, I think, you know, we respect that. It’s democracy functioning.”
Amanpour did play a clip of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on CNN International declaring that while he and Meloni are “rivals,” that does not make her a fascist and any fear-mongering about the state of Italian democracy is “fake news.”
That should say it all. When a partisan political opponent calls the media out for promoting ‘fake news’ about Meloni, Amanpour should listen to him.
Italy’s new conservative government isn’t ‘far-right,’ it’s just right. ALD
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The future looks bright for Italy.
Note that the far left opposition is, indeed, SO far left that they consider (and have strongly so expressed) Socialist dictator Benito Mussolini to be dangerously Right Wing even though he specifically listed his goals in detail and they are identical with those of the Progressives and the Globalists. That’s not the only contradiction: They also condemn as “undemocratic” the election by popular vote of anyone with whom they disagree.
Hungary, Poland, and now Italy reject socialism. November elections should result in a positive change in the US. Pray for our Republic!
The rejection of socialism is likely catalyzed by many things, however the forced embrace of ‘immigrants’ from Africa and the Near East was likely the straw that broke the camel’s back., and perhaps another straw was the rejection of Christian values, as well. Now watch Giorgia kick Brussels in the teeth.