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Jacobin Show: Italian Fascism w/ David Broder

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What Do You Think Meloni and Brothers of Italy Will Do in Government?

Meloni and brothers of Italy have a big parliamentary majority but there's a tendency in Italian politics for the coalitions to kind of swap and switch even during the parliament. I feel that because the government is likely to be so mediocre in its economic performance it would actually be tempted to make a bigger deal of sort of identitarian policies which are intended to harden a right wing base behind itself. In order to try and rally them behind her it's very likely that she'll do things like you know we've seen proposed before ideas like a constitutional change which would criminalize apologism for communist totalitarianism and Islamic extremism. She's promised a naval blockade of the Mediterranean in order to stop migrants from

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