Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is no Mussolini – but she may be a Trump. Ari Melber reports on Meloni’s connections to Trump ally Steve Bannon as well as her party’s neo-fascist ties to Mussolini. #TheGuardian #msnbc #bannon #italy

"Italy, wrote the situationist philosopher Guy Debord in 1968, “sums up the social contradictions of the entire world”. As such, it was a “laboratory for international counter-revolution”. 

Political analysts the world over are now busy parsing Giorgia Meloni’s statements to determine if she is a fascist, a neofascist or a post-fascist. Why, they ask, are Italians seemingly willing to consider a return to the politics of their country’s darkest hour? 

But is Italy really dealing with the resurrection of its fascist past? And, more important, is Italy a laboratory whose experiment the rest of the world could eventually follow? The answers, respectively, are: no and (therefore) yes." 

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