Fascists gotta fascist: Giorgia Meloni's win will make her a new Republican favorite

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If Italian neo-fascist leader Giorgia Meloni's viewpoints sound like those of Tucker Carlson or other Republican figures, there's a reason.

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Opinion | Giorgia Meloni's win will make her a new Republican favorite
Giorgia Meloni's victory means Italy will become more enmeshed in far right and fascist networks, and Republicans will likely make her another favorite.
1:15 PM · Sep 27, 2022

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/giorgia-meloni-s-win-italy-will-make-her-new-gop-n1299099?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

“Of course I do not want women to be slaves, but if I proposed to give our women the vote, I would be laughed at," Italian dictator Benito Mussolini told the German journalist Emil Ludwig in 1932. "She must not count in political life.” Ninety years later, the top figure in Italian politics will finally be female: Giorgia Meloni, head of the neo-fascist Brothers of Italy party, is set become prime minister after her party received 26% of the vote in Sunday's elections.

Il Duce might not have been displeased that Meloni will have the job he once filled, given her past praise for him as a leader, fruit of her years of militancy in the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement party, founded in 1946 to preserve Italian Fascism. Her party’s slogan, "God, Fatherland, Family," dates back to the regime.

Now Italy is the country to have the first female-led far-right government, ending an era of male monopoly of authoritarian governance. What can we expect from Meloni? For starters, Italy will become more enmeshed in far-right networks that stretch from Vladimir Putin's Russia to Viktor Orban's Hungary to Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil to Republican America.

Many of her positions will seem familiar to those who follow authoritarian politicians around the world, including in places like Florida and Texas. Meloni opposes "gender ideology, “LGBT lobbies”, and same-sex unions that harm "the natural family." She believes that nonwhite immigration threatens Italian identity — and her version of Great Replacement theory, which she calls "ethnic substitution," is among the most extreme of its type. She sees a deliberate plot by the right's favorite enemies, such as George Soros and the European Union, to impose mass immigration on Europe and wreck White Christian civilization. "I think there is a deliberate plan to erase everything that identifies us: culture, Nation, family are under attack," she stated in March 2019.

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1. she is in frequent dialogue with Steve Bannon and Republican politicians. "We have networks connecti

she is in frequent dialogue with Steve Bannon and Republican politicians. "We have networks connecting us, our think tanks work with the International Republican Institute, with the Heritage Foundation, we do cultural exchanges, and many of their fights are about things we have talked about.".

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2. What do you mean, "will"...?

She’s already the new darling of Christian Nationalist Twitter.

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3. She's already spoken at CPAC.