PD, obsession with fascism: now they also attack the streets

Blessed be the Democratic Party. With what he finds, between a precarious agenda, internal divisions, unknowns about the future, weak and self-destructive leadership, he manages to have the serenity to engage in the same old and obsolete ideological battles. One in particular, the usual: anti-fascism in the absence of fascism. So they don’t know that fascism no longer exists, or they pretend not to know. And the effect is a bit like that of a Japanese ghost soldier, one who continued to fight, isolated, in a war that ended. Thus, the Democrats presented two bills, both in the Chamber and in the Senate, to “reupdate the Scelba-Mancino law”, explained Sandro Ruotolo, journalist and head of information and culture for the Democratic Party. Of the two bills, one aims to introduce repression against any expression of fascist and Nazi-fascist propaganda, with a prison sentence of up to one year and six months; the other, however, establishes the prohibition of naming streets, squares, monuments or shrines after exponents of the party or fascist ideology. This is not, observes the leader of the PD group in the Chamber Chiara Braga, «a nostalgic operation, but we want to protect a collective memory». Obviously, ideological eyes are always focused on Giorgia Meloni, with that unnerving request for the history exam: «Try to present yourself as a moderate in Europe – observes Ruotolo again – and then support our anti-fascist law proposals. Whose side is he on?”

Then there are the evergreens. Like deputy Laura Boldrini, who supported “two texts that have a solid foundation, which is our Constitution, born from the anti-fascist struggle and founded on these values. Two necessary texts as we witness a systematic attempt to rewrite history and distance ourselves from the Resistance.” Andrea De Maria, deputy, highlights the side of toponymy (also a recurring theme): “It is indecent to name streets and squares after hierarchs or exponents of fascism. Today there is no provision that prevents us from doing so. We have identified specific numbers and if the law were in force there could not be any streets dedicated to Admiral.” Over the years, Punic wars broke out within the councils municipal (and not only) about the historic leader of the Italian Social Movement, about the mere proposal to name something after him, with left-wing parties, Anpi and associations of various progressive hues quickly to protest and mobilize.

From Fratelli d’Italia, vice-president of the Chamber Fabio Rampelli contests the concept of the Democratic Party: «Admiral – he explains – was one of the first after the Second World War to democratize the right. Paradoxically, denying this would be like denying that the former President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, who died a few days ago in an emotional bipartisan embrace, had radically changed his positions, going from exalting the Soviet occupations of Budapest and Prague to founding the Party’s reformist tendency. Italian Communist Party, which would then evolve into the current Democratic Party.” Therefore, «the left should recognize the historical strategic role that Almirante had in consolidating the fragile Italian democracy, instead of chasing ghosts». Also from Giorgia Meloni’s party, the Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro observes: “Forbidden to name roads and streets after Admiral? Since 1968, the Italian left, devoid of its own identity, has been content to be the convex and distorted mirror of the American left: of cancel culture to stupid culture.” A script that is always the same, therefore, of which the Democratic Party has evidently not yet fully understood the effect of distancing it from the expectations of public opinion.

Source: IL Tempo

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