Jacinda Ardern was, well into her first term as a List MP, president of the International Union of Socialist Youth, founded by the Communist International. Anthony Albanese was aligned with Labor’s Hard Left faction, linked to the Communist Party of Australia. Would legacy media describe Ardern’s government as “linked to socialists”? Or Albanese’s as “neo-communist”? Are either routinely described as “far left”?
Yet, this is the almost-universal response of the legacy media to the likely election victory of Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party.
Like nearly everything else the legacy media says, it’s a barefaced lie.
As a young person, Meloni was a member of the Italian Social Movement, which was set up by people who had been fascists in World War II. It then gave birth to the National Alliance. Meloni, as part of that, was a capable minister in a Berlusconi government a decade ago. In 2012 she founded the Brothers of Italy, a name she took from the Italian anthem […]
She and her colleagues say the Italian centre right has “handed fascism over to history”. She condemns absolutely anti-Semitism and any breach of democratic rights.
So, Meloni is further removed from fascism than Ardern from socialism, or Albanese from communism.
Or a raft of ruling and mainstream left parties in Europe directly emerged from Marxism and communism, or, in the case of Sinn Fein, open support of terrorism.
That the most powerful European and American media continue to label parties such as Meloni’s as far right indicates double standards and an intensely illiberal desire to eliminate from public debate all the issues Meloni and her colleagues raise […]
Meloni’s program is a perfectly legitimate centre-right amalgam. She wants more police, less crime, cost-of-living relief, control over illegal immigration, lower taxes, reassertion of traditional Italian identity, support for moderate conservative social values and more independence from the dictates of the EU. She wants to address the energy crisis in part by increasing the supply of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Only a decade or so ago, these were mainstream policies, even on the centre-left (do a quick Google search on past statements on illegal immigration, even the desirability of a border wall, from the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama). What’s changed?
The rise of globalism.
She has endorsed the idea of the “Great Replacement”. This holds that Europe is being intentionally flooded with immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East to change its demographic and cultural identity forever.
That line of thinking also can be dangerous if it sees behind chaotic immigration mismanagement a sinister conspiracy by George Soros or international finance or the World Economic Forum. That sort of thinking is silly.
It might be — if they weren’t directly boasting that that’s exactly what they’re doing.
And the fact remains that Europeans have had a gutful of open borders, which has resulted in millions of single young men from the Middle East and Africa flooding into Europe. Often directly aided by the very governments which should be securing Europe’s borders. Crime, especially rape, has spiralled. France endures terror attacks and plots on a fortnightly basis.
Meloni’s election slogan was: “God, homeland and family” and this probably was more acceptable coming from a younger woman rather than just another of the aged male suits that normally dominate Italian politics.
Meloni is sensible on geo-strategic issues. She’s a strong backer of the US, of NATO and of Ukraine. Unlike her coalition partners, Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini, she hasn’t fallen for the cheapjack nonsense of supporting Vladimir Putin, as though the neo-Stalinist Russian despot was a champion of Western values.
What’s really got the legacy media terrified about Meloni is that she is living proof that the way to beat Wokeism is not by copying it, as National is doing in New Zealand, but by standing up against it.
Conservatives don’t prosper by surrendering to woke. They can actually lead a counter-reformation against the zeitgeist. All political victories are temporary. But they are still victories.
The Australian
That’s what the left-media are afraid of: the centre-right waking up and realising that they are strong.
Hence the terrified, relentless poo-flinging.
