Of course, in politics it is possible to rise again, take revenge, and defeat those who thought they had retired you. However, to do this, you need the strength to fight personally and not look back at the glories of the past, but rather aim straight for the future and offer voters a vision of it. The post with which, at the hour of the vampires, Beppe Grillo reappeared on the political scene does not foreshadow any of this.
The former M5S guru reproaches the current leadership of the Movement for betrayal of the ideals that once were, for patronage, for pettiness. All true, but where was he, Giuseppe Conte replies, reminding him of an embarrassing and recent past as Mario Draghi’s seat-warmer?
The comedian who today only makes people laugh when he wants to be serious attacks the former premier who dethroned him for personal reasons disguised behind political arguments. Beppe feels defrauded and cannot stand that Giuseppi is leading the electoral campaign that could bring him back to Palazzo Chigi, or maybe even higher, drawing strength from the Five Star symbol. He has started a lawsuit to get it back and fears the timing of justice, so he sounds the charge. But even if the former Elevated were to regain what he considers his, what would he do with it? Would he offer it to Alessandro Di Battista, the purest of the impure, the one who has betrayed the idea the least? The point is that it is not at all certain, indeed it is unlikely, that he would do anything with it. Partly because he already has his own party, “Schierarsi,” which will most likely enter the next general elections, partly because the former Five Star tribune, who is angry with the world over script issues, has never openly challenged Conte nor will he ever do so, knowing they share some supporters.
M5s, Beppe Grillo humiliates Conte: “Only polls and seats, they got a big head”
Beppe Grillo does not mince words when talking about the movement he himself founded. And, after the now well-known stra…
The grillini that Grillo has in mind have now disappeared. Among the gentlemen, none of those he brought to Parliament remain, most of the few who were worth something have moved on and detached themselves from the Movement, also because of its founder, who proved unreliable and contradictory, until the judicial troubles of his son Ciro completely overwhelmed and politically killed him. Some old glories, sparse, it’s true, have remained. It seems that a couple, perhaps Chiara Appendino, are still in contact with him, but everyone knows they cannot count on it. Moreover, he himself makes it clear that he is only looking for someone to pass the baton to, while keeping the right to criticize and excommunicate, so following him is a bad deal.
There is not even the old grillini base, and here Grillo still deludes himself. The anger of those who voted M5s has turned into the opportunism of those who received, and want again, salaries without working, bonuses for every purchase, a life maintained by the mad race of public debt. Corrupted by power and corruptors with power. Cheering for Beppe, and especially for Di Battista, is today the center-right, which hopes that to the left of Elly Schlein and Conte troops will emerge that take votes from the opposition. The Vannacci of the broad field, the excluded extremists to whom Grillo refers in his post: the trouble, for the former comedian, is that they do not need him to assert themselves, much less to listen to him.
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