When fascists start distancing themselves from super fascists you know we are heading into a new phase
That’s actually quite normal. Fascists often get along at first because of shared values and maybe similar personalities.
This all falls apart because every dictator puts his own interests before anyone else. Sooner or later those interests clash.
Toxic personalities are also toxic to one another, but they’ll tolerate each other as long as they need to. When one feel like they’ll be just fine without the other, they’ll dump former friends in a heartbeat.
“I’m not here because it’s the right thing to do. I’m here because I expect to get something out of it.”
The minute the deal doesn’t look good, they drop you like a sack of bricks. It happens in ever facet of how they act.
Meloni is a populist, so she windsocks with public opinion.
Meloni is literally a Fascist. But one who just lost a power-grab judicial “reform” referendum, so she’s had to make a tactical retreat from some steps in the usual fasc playbook.
Paywalled.
She has really expressive eyes.
Sounds like the sort of Epstein explanation. She didn’t do as he expected, so it’s her fault.
