Meloni

Premier Giorgia Meloni taking part in her first European Council on 15 December 2022 since leading a right-wing coalition to victory in Italy’s general election
Premier Giorgia Meloni taking part in her first European Council on 15 December 2022 since leading a right-wing coalition to victory in Italy’s general

The Far Right Is Here to Stay

David Broder
“Macron 2017 = Le Pen 2022” — upon the first election of France’s uber-neoliberal president, a slogan graffitied across Paris echoed left-wing common sense about the collapsing political centre. After Donald Trump’s ascent to the US presidency and the Brexit referendum, corporate liberalism stood accused of driving the losers of globalization into the arms of nationalists promising to protect them. Yet during the pandemic, the centre-left claimed a series of victories that, some claimed, marked the ebbing of this threat. With Trump out of office, the ...
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