Giorgia Meloni’s stunning victory in Italy has sent shockwaves throughout the establishment in Europe and the United States. Nearly every media report has compared Meloni to former Italian dictator and fascist Benito Mussolini, whose rule came to an inglorious end in the final days of World War II.
Calling Italy “the birthplace of fascism,” the New York Times said Meloni’s victory “comes as formerly taboo and marginalized parties with Nazi or fascist heritages are entering the mainstream — and winning elections — across Europe.”
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The Financial Times editorial board told readers Meloni’s victory warrants “concern, but not panic” — concern because her “hard-right” Brothers of Italy party has its “roots in the neo-fascist movement.” But they needn’t panic because “Meloni’s Atlanticism and strong support for Ukraine makes her premiership easier for Brussels to swallow.” Italy’s “current dire economy,” the board added, will put a brake on most of her agenda, saying that Meloni’s “political fate is tied to that of the economy.”
Left-wing site Vox warned readers: “Despite Meloni’s and other right-wing figures’ insistence to the contrary — and despite the brutality of Mussolini’s fascist movement in Italy and across Europe — his influence never completely receded from Italian politics.”
CBS News’s coverage of Meloni’s victory may have been the most outrageous. It played clips from Mussolini’s March on Rome and videos of him with Adolf Hitler during World War II while suggesting that members of Meloni’s party are the political heirs of the National Fascist Party.
Government leaders are also trying to undermine Meloni. Even before she won the election, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned her audience during a speech at Princeton University of the possibility of a Meloni win, while reassuring them that the establishment is ready to step in if need be. “If things go in a difficult direction, I’ve spoken about Hungary and Poland, we have tools,” she said. (Emphasis added.) Clearly, von der Leyen intends to use the power of the purse to control Meloni.
All this fearmongering is confusing since Meloni’s platform is rooted in basic principles that most people would agree are important: “God, country, and family.” She opposes illegal immigration, doesn’t buy into climate alarmism, and thinks the leftist assault on the family and our personal freedom is a legitimate threat. Far from being radical, these are positions many of us share.
Like Toto pulling back the curtain to expose the great and powerful Wizard of Oz as a fraud, Meloni simply spoke the truth about the globalist agenda. She argued in a fiery speech earlier this year that has since gone viral that progressives have weaponized social justice to destroy the family first and the individual second. By erasing our communal connections and identities, we become easier to control, she argued. And control of the masses is the Left’s desired endgame.
It’s no coincidence that one of the 13 guiding principles of Black Lives Matter calls for the “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics.” This principle comes directly from Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto.
“Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening?” Meloni asked. “There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves.”
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“And so they attack national identity. They attack religious identity. They attack gender identity. They attack family identity. I can’t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be citizen X, gender X, parent 1, parent 2. I must be a number. Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators,” she continued.
The problems ailing Italy are the same problems ailing America. And like former President Donald Trump, Meloni has identified the problem and revealed the cause. Her victory presents a clear and present danger to the Left’s agenda. No wonder they’re out to get her.
Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the Washington Examiner and the Western Journal. Her articles have appeared on many websites, including MSN, RedState, Newsmax, the Federalist, and RealClearPolitics. Follow her on Twitter or LinkedIn.
