Who knows if tonight, when she speaks from the stage in Bari, Giorgia Meloni will call them by name and remember their words. Probably not, also because it would be a never-ending list and today is a day of celebration. It is also thanks to them, however, that she now leads the longest-lasting government of the republic. She knows it, in fact she often repeats that «enemies are useful, a spur to do things that otherwise you think you can postpone, to overcome your limits and correct your mistakes».
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For a long time, her enemies had the tone of Cassandra, the prophetess of misfortunes whom no one believed, yet she told the truth, because she had the cursed gift of foresight. Four years later, we know that the only ability they had was to surrender to bitterness, confuse ideology with analysis, their beliefs with a reality that turned out to be very different.
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It is not known where to start, so abundant is it. There is Carlo De Benedetti, for example. On July 27, 2022, five days after Mario Draghi‘s resignation, he gave an interview to Corriere della Sera that today deserves to be remembered. He said that «we are running the greatest danger in the history of the republic», that «a right-wing victory in the next elections would be a catastrophe», «the final blow» for the economy, the guarantee of «a severe recession coming», also because «Brussels, Paris, Berlin would put every kind of obstacle in our way, to avoid contagion». He added that Meloni «would isolate Italy. Just like Mussolini did». And so it was necessary to «enter into a CLN logic», all together against the «common enemy». Since that was still not enough, he added information that only he could have: «I know for sure, from my sources in the State Department, that the American administration considers the prospect of this right going to government in Italy horrifying». Not even a year later, on July 27, 2023, Joe Biden received Meloni in the Oval Office: «With Giorgia we have become friends».
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Piero Fassino, one whose prophecies will one day have a separate book, contributed. He wrote an article on Huffington Post on July 25, to warn that «if the sovereignist and populist right wins, Italy will be isolated in Europe and in the world». A month later he added that castor oil and batons would also return: «The right would like to restrict everyone’s right to be free and not discriminated against for cultural, ethnic, religious or sexual reasons».
But it was the economy that they insisted on the most, convinced that the leap from Draghi to Meloni would cause the withdrawal of confidence in Italian debt securities and blow up the precarious balances of public finance. Enrico Letta, then secretary of the PD, hammered on this point every day, even abroad. «We will not let this right-wing bring us back to the bankruptcy of 2011», he announced on September 1 at the Festa dell’Unità. Words like «bankruptcy» and «default» were very fashionable. Even the PD member Lorenzo Guerini, usually measured in words, fell for it. «With the right in government», he said to La Stampa a few days before the vote, «Italy risks isolation in Europe and a default»; «They would leave the country on its knees, as in 2011, when they brought us to the brink of default. Their recipes have not changed. Nor have the chefs». Matteo Renzi issued unappealable sentences: «The promises of Berlusconi, Salvini and Meloni technically lead Italy to default».
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Then there were those specialized in predicting Italy’s detachment from the Atlantic axis and the orbit of democracies, and perhaps they are the most amusing. Like Romano Prodi, to whom, shortly after the elections, the German weekly Der Spiegel asked if Meloni’s victory was a danger to Italian democracy. And he, without even the excuse of propaganda needs, replied: «It is certainly possible, yes. At least in the medium term». It pairs with Ezio Mauro, who on Repubblica, on September 19, posed the anguished question to readers: «The day after the vote, if this right wins, will we still wake up Western?».
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