It took just one sentence to unleash the whining of the left. The theme, then, is always the same: fascism. Because Giorgia Meloni, interviewed by Roger Cohen in the New York Times, gave a judgment on the Ventennio considered too soft by the opposition. “Clearly, if we look at this history today it is one thing. If we had lived it from the inside, we would probably have seen it differently, right?” says the prime minister. She refers to the fascist period as a “particularly complex” era.
Heavens open. From the PD, the deputy Arturo Scotto makes himself heard. “Matteotti, Gramsci, Gobetti and many others were also in the middle of history. But they immediately perceived what fascism was. Paying with their lives,” attacks the Democratic deputy on social media.
“That in 2026 Meloni says not everyone was complicit is an enormity,” adds Scotto, emphasizing that “her Vannacci moment has begun. Or maybe it never ended.” In his report on Meloni’s figure, Cohen retraces the political history of the prime minister, from her activism in the Youth Front in the late ’80s to her government experience with Berlusconi, up to the victory in the 2022 elections.
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MELONIZATION
The journalist also recalls the process, defined as “melonization,” that led her to “free herself from the threat of violent authoritarianism” and “gain consensus in the mainstream through pragmatic conservatism, or at least its appearance.” Cohen, however, wonders if Meloni has “really become a moderate democrat at the age of 49,” or if “inside her still hides the nineteen-year-old neo-fascist.” The activist who, in 1996, told French TV that “Mussolini was a good politician” and that “everything he did, he did for Italy.”
In his report, Cohen retraces the places dear to the Meloni right. He went to Garbatella to visit the MSI section where Meloni began her political career. There he met Marco Volponi, who leads it. He has known the prime minister since adolescence. “At Colle Oppio I learned to defend my ideas,” Meloni tells Cohen. “I became the person I am thanks to the years of youth activism.”
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“By ferrying her post-fascist party towards the mainstream, Mrs. Meloni has always refused to define herself as antifascist,” writes the American journalist, “a term which in her view designates the left-wing groups of her youth, for whom, in their own words, ‘killing fascists is not a crime’.” Then Cohen reports another phrase from Meloni: “I know the name and history of all the young people sacrificed on the altar of antifascism.”
“Mrs. Meloni,” he concludes, “has taken advantage of this hesitation, moving on a narrow path between adherence to Italian democratic freedom and a curious ambivalence about the period in which it was lost.” But yesterday the minister Nello Musumeci also intervened on fascism at the Fdi event, “Bar Italia.” “Antifascism has always been the greatest industry for the left.
An industry that knows no crisis and keeps them united, those who are particularly divided on everything,” he emphasized. “There is the psychosis of the return to fascism to keep militant antifascism alive, which is a instrumental invention,” explained the minister for Civil Protection. “Let it be clear, we on the right have great respect for historical antifascism,” when “there were real partisans,” those “who risked their lives in the civil war to fight the German and Italian adversary.”
However, he added, “antifascism is not a guarantee of freedom and democracy, because it is only the political tool that the left has invented in recent months and years only to delegitimize the only political force that opposes them, which is the right of Brothers of Italy.”
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