She seems more sane than the maniac who ran the country during the plandemic, though that’s not saying much.
I hope this victory does not stall right wing activism in Italian public life. One of the dangers of Trump was that he gave people a sense that they could sit back, and not fight in the culture war simply because “their guy” got into office. This is a crucial moment in Italy’s history, and it needs to be exploited by the right forces.
We are coming up on 100 years of the March on Rome, and I think (not to detail this thread) that if the Italian right is to truly win, they must learn from the success of the Fascist movement that preceded them.
“The basic idea of Fascism indeed is the spiritual interpretation of history. Fascism is a definite revolt against materialism, that is, against all forms of interpreting the universe from a purely naturalistic or purely individualistic standpoint.”
- James Strachey Barnes, The Universal Aspects of Fascism and Fascism, pg. 234
The Italian right needs to turn to Catholic Tradition, for it can provide the only true basis for a resistance to the banal and charlatan spirit of modernity. These nationalists must realize in order to save their country, they must work on trying to save their own souls and those of their countrymen in that apostate land. I think some of them already understand this, but more of them need to, or else they will simply fall into the same kind of materialistic outlook as the liberals and reds they oppose.
Mind you, when Barnes, who was a Catholic like us, writes “spiritual”, he truly means “Catholic”. There are plenty of gems in this book, wherein he illustrates the unity between Catholic and Italian Fascist thought. Additionally, in his work The Universal Aspects of Fascism, you will find a very favorable preface by none other than Mussolini himself. Thus this Anglo-Italian’s presentation of the Fascist worldview was sanctioned by Il Duce.
I think that while it would be certainly silly for Catholic Americans to import 1930s Italian Fascism into our country, we can learn much from that ideology and apply its universal principles to our own social action. We ought to do this while maintaining a truly American identity, cleansed from that awful heresy of Americanism.