The Rich and the Normal
A few weeks ago, the Italian people finally broke the political framework that dates to the end of the second world war. The M5S Five Stars Movement, a party without a heritage, won the most popular votes. The M5S has been on a wave of growth since winning mayoral control of some Italian cities.
The second-ranking parties are also new in their outlook, since they are right wing populists, anti-immigration, anti-European, or pro-capitalist oligarch fronts.
Berlusconi returned from the political wilderness, elderly now and still infamous for his bunga-bunga orgies with minors, but carrying on his personality cult as if nothing had ever happened.
The true loser is the democratic party, the pro-NATO centre-left, the stabilising major coalition party which gave many Italian premiers and presidents and set the twentieth-century tone of Italy as a founder of Europe and a pillar of the welfare state. This…
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