A risky narrative that exacerbates divisions – Corriere.it

The sentences of the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, on the massacre in via Rasella which caused the massacre of women in retaliation Ardeatine pitscan also be classified as free words.

Claim that the attack by the partisans was a page far from noble of the Resistance, questionable even in the sense that it can be discussed. To add that the Germans killed in Rome in March 1944 were one musical band of semi-retired and non-Nazi SS, disturbing. And the president of the Jewish community of Rome, Ruth Dureghelloreminded him of the historical truth.

But the interview given by the second state office to the podcast of Free Daily is likely to feed a strand which features right-wingers. And it shows a tendency to find, it is not clear if deliberately, confrontation opportunities in the name of one alternative narrative cultivated for decades but never elaborated.

The opposition of Giuseppe Conte’s M5S and Elly Schlein’s Pd do the same, with their anti-government extremism. Role and political weight are different, however, like the topics covered and the effects produced. The first, paradoxical, is to reanimate controversies that public opinion has shown it does not consider important; and that the opponents themselves didn’t raise that much afterwards the vote of 25 September. We therefore end up coldly creating artificial and lacerating contrasts. The second effect of projecting the image of a majority in the throes of rewrite the remote past: despite the government function that should push us to unite.

The further consequence, little noticed, that rehash the years of fascism with such statements he ends up damaging the legitimacy effort made and successful by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni; and the perception of Italy in Europe. If to this we add bizarre initiatives such as fines for those who use foreign words, proposed by Fabio Rampelliof FdI, the feeling of amazement grows: also because Giorgia Meloni, when she took office, defined herself with self-irony as a underdogan English term meaning more or less candidate to lose. Not only. been the current executive to create a ministry for Made in Italyentrusted to Francesco Lollobrigida, very close politically to Palazzo Chigi: another foreign expression to be fined, according to Rampelli and the parliamentarians of his party who signed the proposal.

It does not appear that in the cordial and in-depth conversation that the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, and the prime minister had yesterday, this was also discussed. Probably the topic would create unease, if nothing else, for both of us.