Tomorrow is a date circled in red in the United States, as the midterm elections will be held that will chart the path, according to very complicated polls, for the second part of Biden’s presidency. And they will likely mark a Trumpian recovery that could culminate in the announcement of the reappointment of the 45th president.
However, in projecting the issues at home, what follows will heighten attention to the political synergies between the overseas republican world and that Meloni centre-right that won the elections by bringing the leader of the Brothers of Italy into Palazzo Chigi.
A lengthy article in the Washington Post focused on this a few days ago, noting that Giorgia Meloni “has emerged as a point of reference for ‘MAGA’ Republicans, who have interpreted her rise as an affirmation of their own values and goals”. Said by the fasts of American politics, Maga means “Make America Great Again”, and is the meaning (as well as the slogan) of the political message with which Donald Trump won the elections in 2016, undermining liberal certainties. To better emphasize the concept, the “Post” relaunches some positions taken by exponents of this area regarding a 2019 clip in which the current prime minister criticized “the attack on national, religious and gender, family identity”. Taylor Greene, an MP from Georgia, commented with a “well said”. Ted Cruz (who challenged Trump in the 2016 primaries) reacted with a “spectacular” lapidary.
The article also highlights some common legacies between the Italian and American political confrontation: for example, the accusations of racism and fascism. “They’re doing the same thing to me,” Arizona nominee Kari Lane told Fox News. And always on Fox, a network that has become a reference for Trumpists, is Tucker Carlson, a famous anchor and commentator in the area. Giorgia Meloni, he said, was “one of the few politicians willing to speak the truth aloud,” and even devoted many minutes of an episode of her wildly popular show to the rise of the prime minister.
In fact, in the analysis, the Washington Post falls into contradiction, since in the attack on the article it defines Giorgia Meloni as the head of government of the “extreme right”, that is, of the extreme right, and later on in the text it recognizes that, with the approach of the election nomination, “has managed to do what the Republicans expected and never did for Trump: moderate.”
However, in the reconstruction we find the genesis of a bond with American republicans built over time, sealed by the participation in the CPAC, which is the “Conservative Political Action Conference”, a very important annual commitment for the construction of the political proposal. And in the maturation of this path of synergy he had spoken with Time, a few months ago, also the American analyst (very competent also in Italian matters) Edward Luttwak. It was the middle of summer, and the Italian left-wing press was relaunching the hypothesis of concern in the United States about who knows what pro-Russian spin on a possible Meloni government. Luttwak, however, undid these reconstructions: “The Republican Party expert who met Giorgia Meloni in Florida on the occasion of the CPAC in Orlando, Gordon Chang, studied and observed his leadership very thoroughly. Recognizing how you represent a new political generation, which has nothing to do with fascism and wants to keep Italy on the side of the United States, rejecting any approach to China and Russia ».
Source: IL Tempo
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