Italy is off to a rip-roaring start...

[brooklynite]

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[peggysue2]

1. This is what happens when . . .

(reportedly) a third of the electorate stays home. Never invite the vampires in bc despite the pleasant smiles, the empty but glorious promises, they'll ultimately go for your throat!

[JustAnotherGen]

6. I think the Northern Centrists and

Leftists thought 'it couldn't happen'.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how long this one lasts.

Especially once Steve Bannon goes to prison. He's one of the main orchestrators of her election, and a lot of the push for white nationalism in Italy and other parts of Europe. It will also be interesting to see how Pope Francis deals with it.

[calimary]

12. Hah. Steve Bannon.

A metastasizing cancer of two legs.

[dchill]

19. ...and worldwide infection, evidently.

[soldierant]

16. Yeah. Italy led the way into fascism starting in the early twenties.

He first took office in 1922, just a hindred years ago.

There was a brief time when soe Germans called Hitler "our Mussolini."

Let's hope for fewer copycats this time around.

[Polybius]

24. I often wonder what Mussolini's fate would have been had there been no Hitler

Would he have invaded the countries that Hitler did?

[soldierant]

25. That's hard to say.

Even as it was, he was so polarizing that his oponentsm after they executed him, hanged his body upsode down in the public square, and his supportes stole the body and sent iton tour as if it were a holy relic (and vowed to keep the flame of fascism alive - started a new party essentially named "flame" - and that party is still around and Giorgia Meloni is the leader of it now.)

Completely off topic - but something I learned watching "Finding Your Roots" is that her surname - "Meloni" - probably means whe had a male ancestor who was anonymously turned over to an orphanage as an infant, and given the surname "Meloni" due to the shape of his head.

[madaboutharry]

2. Italy's governments last an average of 13 months.

Italy has had 70 changes in government since the end of WWII. Hopefully this one will end on schedule.

[niyad]

3. or sooner.

[malaise]

7. The good news

Yep

[brooklynite]

8. Berlusconi lasted nine years.

[bronxiteforever]

14. And Orban was re-elected and is an honorary GOPer.

[WestMichRad]

18. Except Victor Orban is prime minister of Hungary...

…not Italy.

[bronxiteforever]

20. I of course know that. The point was the fascists can be

re-elected in Europe.

https://balkaninsight.com/2022/09/26/isolated-hungary-welcomes-valuable-new-eu-ally-in-italys-meloni/

[Marius25]

4. Ted Cruz is already praising her win.

[calimary]

11. That's enough of a condemnation right there.

If Ted Cruz approves, it’s gotta be absolutely wretched for the rest of us.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Oh - her mask finally slipped

There it is.

Only a matter of time before she starts spouting off nonsense of the "Greater Good" and that there are no individuals - only the State(Country).

[Initech]

10. They should just put the SS uniforms on and get it over with already.

[Lucinda]

13. ...

[leftstreet]

15. Apparently lowest voter turnout since the 70s

If articles I'm seeing are correct

[Ford_Prefect]

17. Here we go again...Fractional Fascist government divides Italy to rule.

[speak easy]

21. Misleading.

There was relatively little antisemitism in fascist Italy before 1938. There were Jews in senior positions in the National Fascist Party, and Mussolini had a Jewish mistress.

The point is, you can have full blown fascism without heavy antisemitism or the extermination camps.

[DBoon]

22. You start with Hitler

Take away antisemitism, you have Mussolini
Take away imperialism, you have Franco
Take away colonialism, you have Pinochet

It's all still fascism

[speak easy]

23. +1. Yep.