Summer eclipse of Schlein. FdI: “She takes a month off” | Libero Quotidiano.it

A theme of political science relevance now imposes itself: Elly Schlein’s new path to leadership. It is, in every respect, a ghostly leadership. No, not like the recent tradition of the left, be careful: here disappearance is intentional, hiding is stubbornly practiced. Elly is not there, Elly does not speak, Elly does not post (except for anniversaries of tragic events and to declare a video showing her in a friendly conversation with Vannacci fake, which would already have been something). And perhaps the first to be happy about the secretary’s summer disappearance are the Pd faction leaders, who would like to prolong this vacant August indefinitely, even before it is a vacation month.

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THE ATTACK
Certainly, the one to unearth the theme by self-declaring as a “troublemaker” was the deputy and organization manager of FdI Giovanni Donzelli, who opened the “Bar Italia” tour stop in Alba Adriatica with the question that has now become an existential obsession: «Has anyone seen Elly Schlein recently?». No, indeed, Elly is missing, Elly can only be evoked by negation, Elly as the Godot of Italian summer politics, named by disoriented militants, pampered by orphaned editorialists, the bisyllable echoes repeatedly in August talk shows, but she never appears.

Since the 6th of this month, specifies the troublemaker and meticulous Donzelli, the day the Chamber of Deputies closed. And it is even too easy for him to recall the “militant summer” of the “old communists,” people groping in the totalitarian glare of History, but at least with their feet planted (dialectically, the old Marx would have said) in reality, people who put the sausage on the fire at the Festa dell’Unità and got animated for work, class conflict, the working condition in the factory (a place now banned from Elly’s agenda as a vile producer of emissions, since workers if they no longer have bread can well feed on brioche). All 20th-century antiques, now there is Elly’s hidden, discreet, fugitive summer. She is more with Francis Scott Fitzgerald than with Marx: “Summer evenings are like hidden treasures.”

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And off then, to who knows where, in any case far from that demanding, boring, fundamentally sad thing that is politics. And also far from the sausage and that reactionary residue of the fossil era that is charcoal, much better to order a tofu takeout dish in one’s good retreat, delivered by the rider to whom Elly is so Donzelli, who may be more prosaic but has the vice of clinging to numbers, quantifies the political-philosophical experiment: “I went to check her appointments and saw that the first public appointment will be on September 6. A whole month in which she disappeared from the radar.”

To someone near Largo del Nazareno, we bet, this will seem too little. Meanwhile, Giuseppe Conte rages, lectures on subjects he knows as much as Aramaic (fuel costs), talks about the children of Gaza even at the Canicattì festival, blames the government for the heat and probably also for the Punic wars. It is the race between Giuseppi’s freewheeling summer and Elly’s refractory summer, between populism in a bow tie and elitism arm in arm with the trusted color analyst (getting the bikini color wrong is a serious ideological sin in the Schlein era, as opening to social-democratic drifts in the communist era is beach deviationism). Certainly, after Elly’s non-militant month, it would be a good thing, Donzelli stings, to avoid “the pantomime about Italians who cannot afford to go on vacation.” But maybe he has not grasped the new model of the gauche à la Elly: the Marquis Conte Piermatteo Barambani di Fantozzi against all. Paraphrasing his immortal aphorism: on vacation we are all equal, dear inferiors.

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