Is History Repeating? Italy Seems to be Going Fascist

This seems bad.

I haven't been following this closely. What is their platform? Conflict with the EU, bad on personal freedoms, crackdown on immigration?

I would assume so. She’s known to hang out with Steve Bannon so it can’t be good.

I was hoping someone was talking about this. Yes, she's a Mussolini sympathizer, says he didn't do anything wrong, was a good man trying to protect Italy. Her speeches are all about God, family, and fatherland, which should sound very familiar. It's funny, too, in a way, because some in the media are talking about how she's the first woman president, and it's like, folks, she's a fascist. A woman as president murdering marginalized people is not a step up on the equality chain. It's not.

Italy's in for a bad time, as are we all, if fascism truly takes hold once again in Europe.

For context, however, when was the last time Italy had a good government?

I was gonna say, Marcus Aurelius...

She's against abortion rights, against marriage equality and even same-sex civil unions, doesn't think gay people should be parents and wants to make it illegal for same-sex couples to adopt, endorses the Great Replacement theory and believes that Africans are trying to take over Italy through immigration, and supports Italian irredentism in Croatia.

So basically she's a U.S. Republican, and then some.

Italy has had like 75 governments over the last 65 years. She'll be gone before you know it

Berlusconi, like Trump, was the foreshadowing of much worse things to come from the right.