Giuliano Ferrara

Shame directed at others, without self-reflection, is nothing but totalitarian humanitarianism and mindless conformity.

While readers are free to believe anything, in the realm of conspiracy theories and QAnon, a modicum of caution is advisable before crediting—as Francesco Battistini did in Il Corriere—a head of government who, in his seaside villa, surrounded by Filipino servants, lingers over breakfast and delays contacting the military leadership for hours while news of the pogrom emerges.

The myth of the new ‘Ventennio’. It would be far more interesting to understand why it was the political right that managed to unify a country – divided by a civil, cultural and institutional delegitimisation that proved so hard to overcome – and integrate it into the new normal.

His success as a guru among the educated and inquisitive—a group that includes a great many attractive and capable people—is surprising in that it coincides with secularism; he follows a worldview rooted in existentialism and a spirit of liberty, utilitarianism and joie de vivre, seeking to ground all this in an encounter between East and West that today sounds strange and even sinister.

Is the right’s success down to ignorance? Bonaccini has not taken Italy into account, nor those steeped in prejudice, those who believe the semi-educated nonsense circulating on the web and on self-righteous TV, nor those who live and breathe the Constitution without knowing what it actually is.

Giulia Presutti and Daniele Piervincenzi: they are the two ‘kapos’, to use the gentle term coined by the daily newspaper Safari, who will end up literally squeezed dry and then thrown in the bin by the Nazis on Viale Mazzini.