Even by the standards of Italian politics, it was a bonkers week: we thought we had a government, then we didn’t and now, three months after the general election, we really do. Giuseppe Conte’s new administration is, by a long shot, the most populist government in Europe . This is the beginning of Italy’s “Third Republic”.
There are a few key concepts from Italian politics that explain what the populists are rebelling against. The first is trasformismo , a word associated with Italian democracy since its inception: it implies the art of corrupting or co-opting all opposition. It’s like a […]
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