Congratulations to Italy for breaking the glass ceiling...in the f***ing worst way possible...
At the very least, given Italy's history, Meloni's government will probably implode spectacularly sooner or later. I guess we can look forward to that?
It never occurs to many on the Left that low immigration, a non-globalist framework for policy, and an emphasis on preservation of family and culture is what Italian voters want.
If "God. Family. Country" is now Far Right, then God Help Western Civilization.
Italy is not America. It gets to be what Italian voters want.
Those were more 2018 issues. My understanding is that this time the right's messaging focused more on the last few governments' failure to lastingly improve Italians' living standards. One of many reasons why I agree with Battista that the dynamics of this election are frankly not quite as depressing as those of the last one, even though the results of this one are even worse.
Ideally the result of this election would be to make the political parties wake up to the concept of normal politics, where the voters make their choice and then the winner of the election forms government, instead of the endless procession of non-party technocratic governments Italy has had since
2011. It's no wonder that the electorate voted against that!
Unfortunately I think this is unlikely, since Italian politicians have realized that if they never take responsibility for anything they can never be voted out.
