To be fair while Renzi (former left Italian premier in 2014) was one of her rivals, but not main one
Her actual main rival Enrico Letta (leader of Partito Democratico) based indeed whole campaign doing pretty much nothing more than pointing finger at her and screaming "but teh fascism!" completely unaware of what italians wanted from a new government
Dude is rare mix of empty left rethoric and lack of charisma, decent result of PD (2nd most voted and only leftwing party in top 4) have nothing to do with him and pretty much everything to do with PD being the big eftwing option for left people to vote against Meloni
To give perspective this guy on first days as PD leader tweeted some inspirational and intellectual shit like
"Ancient Romans were so wise that elected the great #EmperorClaudio, the first #foreigner #Emperor. They was so smart and good at integrate!"
Except Claudio was'nt at all a foreigner, son of two italic parents (from ancient noble families of Rome) and of course roman citizien, just born in south of Gallia (France) because father was doing military campaign in that moment
So got roasted and gone like
"eh guess history experts* are correct, #EmperorClaudio was'nt foreigner but he came from outside and anyway #foreigner still good"
*like have whoever can click on wikipeda
Only to get roasted harder
As random this shit is, give you the picture of the guy awareness lol
Now he's going to resign and his party already looking for better substitute, wich tbh could mean anybody
When you are so far from the middle, people in the middle look extreme. It's all about perspective.I remember they said Austria elected a far-right leader then he turned out to be moderate
When you are so far from the middle, people in the middle look extreme. It's all about perspective.
To use an anecdotal example. I used to have a friend, back in 2014 we both did political compass tests. Both of us turned out to be pretty much in the exact same spot. Just libertarian and just left of center.
Over the years we started getting drawn further and further apart on dumb political and social issues. Nothing too important, I just became more and more fed up with social justice stuff while he got more and more into it.
In 2019 we were having one of our arguments when he told me that I had become "radicalised."
I disputed this and offered for us both to retake our political compass tests, and we did. My result was that I had become slightly more libertarian and less authoritarian, but had switched from just left of center to just right of it.
My friends' had gone the other way. His has gone from just left of center to waaaaaaay further left. To the point where he was nowhere near the center anymore.
He called me the radicalised one, when my result was that I was actually closer to the center than I was in 2014.
From his far left perspective even my 2014 results which were still on the left, he still would have thought I was an extremist because that's how far gone he had become.
We ended up falling out for good over the Kyle Rittenhouse thing lol, we were already on shaky ground over BLM but the Rittenhouse thing killed our friendship for good.
I remember they said Austria elected a far-right leader then he turned out to be moderate
That's exactly why i'm not sold on her and did'nt voted, this kind of gimmicks may be good to fire up a "small" local crowd, but are going to be an absolute weakness on international level, specially considering there are going to be bunch on nations + EU boycotting her, and she just give them free ammosShe certainly gives off that fevered lunatic vibe.
Literally Hitler!Oh, I get it... Being on the right means she's fascist, duh...
Classic, lol
Crossed with Pol PotLiterally Hitler!