(Also of interest are the threats and implied threats(!) from outraged parties and individuals…however one assessment seems to be entirely wrongheaded: that with this election, ‘The Italian people have given the EU a “lesson in humility”…’…since I’m most doubtful that “humility” is in the EU’s vocabulary, as it were….)

Congratulations!!

We are quite happy for the result and amused by the hysterical reaction of the usual media. I never saw a pummeling of the left like that in my whole life: ALL regions voted for the center-right (aka ultra-post-fascist) coalition, even the most reliably red like Emilia-Romagna or Toscana; the only exception is Campania (the very poor and unstable region of Naples and Pompei) where the winner was the Movimento 5-Stelle with its absurd promises of a citizenship salary for all(!)

Nobody believes in a fascist danger, in fact we are cracking jokes about this farce all day long in office and at home. Meloni is a good, common sense, very determinate woman; she was a fascist sympathizer in her youth, but you have to know her Italian background to understand what that means – now she’s a conservative with traditional values, faithful to the Nato and hoping for a different Europe.
Some leftist colleagues of mine told me that this trite accusation of Fascism has backfired badly, and they are right because everybody knows she’s not an extremist; in my opinion, she’s an old style statist conservative (like most Italians of any color), which is her true limit, but she’s really a good person.

Now let’s see what the new government is capable of; for sure they have the support of the majority of the nation, and with 12.3 millions of votes against 7, a strong majority in both the Senato and the Camera. The lockdown, new-order era is over, for the moment – for sure the European left is going to react, but the sentiment of rebellion against the smug Politically Correctness is rising everywhere.
Btw, I’ve planned to visit Hungary and Budapest for the first time with my wife, at the end of October: let’s bravely travel into another country “plunged in the darkness of fascism”. Ah ah ah

God bless all of you!

He wasn’t any of these things.

Substitute “marxism” for “communism” and it is accurate.

His mother was a committed socialist and marxist, as were her parents, who were also a large part of his upbringing.

One of Obama’s prime mentors was Bill Ayers, who is unquestionably a marxist radical.

Another, Jeremiah Wright, has praised socialism and Marxism.

So, no, it is an accurate statement except for the conflation of communism with the “larger” inclusive appellation, “Marxism”.