Commentary
The left is worried about Italy. Giorgia Meloni—whose Brothers of Italy party unfortunately has historical links to Benito Mussolini’s fascists and has shown some support for Vladimir Putin’s Russia—won 44 percent of the vote on Sept. 26 and is set to become Italy’s first female prime minister.
In her teens, Meloni praised Mussolini, which The Atlantic cites in breathlessly warning of “The return of fascism in Italy.”
CNN calls her “Italy’s most far-right prime minister since Mussolini.”
However, it’s not quite that dire. Meloni has more recently denounced fascism as a historical footnote to modern conservatism and said that some actually call her a “traitor” to the 20th-century totalitarian ideology….