If you were to go by the hysterical gibbering of the legacy media over the last week, Hitler and Mussolini have risen from the grave and blackshirts are running riot in the streets, bashing anyone who gets in their way.
Wait, the last part is true — except that the blackshirted thugs call themselves “Antifa”.
But the democratic election of Giorgia Meloni has sent the media-political class into the sort of pearl-clutching histrionics not seen since the Bad Orange Man. Why has the election of Italy’s first female PM so upset the globalist great and good?
Because, like Trump, she represents the popular backlash against the globalist agenda of open borders and non-stop wokeism.
Giorgia Meloni’s dominant campaign platform was anti-illegal immigration along with a broader ‘anti-Woke’ stance. Italy has endured years of unrestrained migration that has left the nation a mess of crime, gangs, violence, and social unrest – all because Germany invited the third-world to ‘come on over’ and try out the welfare system under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Note that: illegal immigration. The Big Lie the media tell to our faces, every day, is “migrants”. Boatloads of millions of young, single, Middle-Eastern and African men storming the beaches of Italy, Greece and Malta, are not “migrants”. They’re illegal immigrants — and indistinguishable from an invading force of barbarians, if their penchant for raping and pillaging is anything to go by.
Of course, they don’t see any of the downsides of mass migration in the Elysee palace, the Reichstag, and especially not from the EU headquarters in Brussels, just a bomb-blast away from Molenbeek. No, for them, it’s all just chi-chi ethnic cafes and cheap au pairs.
The common people have to experience the lived reality of globalism — and they’re not happy.
In the modern era, Meloni’s victory is a rebellion against the anti-democratic European Union which has been infuriating member states for years. Many of the critical problems facing European nations like Italy only exist because of policy failures and reckless decisions made by the European Union.
The only parallel you could draw between Meloni and Fascism is that her political movement is another rebellion against foreign socialist bureaucracies that have been working to erode national sovereignty. Her solution is a return to democracy, capitalism, and conservatism – almost the exact opposite of Fascism. If this changes, then we can re-open the discussion.
The anti-Meloni histrionics hinge mostly on bad history and straw-man arguments.
While Meloni might be a nationalist (in the classical, not revolutionary sense), she is certainly not a Fascist – although left-wing media outlets partial to a bit of international socialism don’t understand the difference.
As I wrote recently, Jacinda Ardern and Anthony Albanese are far more closely historically linked to communism than Meloni is to fascism. So are the Euro-elite screaming and pointing at the Italian elections.
The Brothers of Italy have a few stray roots in Neo-fascist movements, but the problem with European political parties is that nearly all of them have distant feelers in either communism, Fascism, Marxism, socialism, or National Socialism. It’s impossible not to, given the melting pot of European politics during the last two world wars that dominated their political landscape. Modern parties evolved out of this mess and bear little resemblance to their past. Australia, America, and the UK are largely removed from this problem and so many observers are easily fooled by the media into thinking there is something extraordinary about a dubious history.
What matters with modern European parties is their stated policies and ethics, none of which are Fascist in the case of Meloni.
As for the fainting fits over “anti-LGBT”, the funny thing is that a growing number of homosexual and bisexual men and women are anti-LGBT, too. Because they’ve seen their original campaign to just be left in peace metastasize into a brutally intolerant Marxist Queer-Theory driven ideology that is openly dedicated to destroying the traditional family, and tacitly dedicated to normalising everything up to and including open paedophilia.
Meloni made her views clear on this issue. ‘Yes to natural families, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death.’ She also said that, ‘I believe a child has the right to grow up with a father and a mother,’ in reply to same-sex parenting questions.
Even a decade ago, these would not have been controversial opinions. Among the great mass of ordinary people, they still are not.
The rise of Meloni is a response to arrogant left-wing politics practised by the born to rule class of the European Union. Those times, it seems, are coming to an end.
Spectator Australia
And that’s why the media-political class is throwing every smear it has at Meloni: she doesn’t threaten peace or anyone’s rights. She threatens the globalist Great Reset agenda.
Good.