Because it is no longer enough to call oneself anti-populist for a strong policy

Lepenists who? There are not only personal issues behind the crisis in the relationship between Renzi and Calenda: there is also the transformation of the political context. Italy is no longer a country dominated by extremists, neither on the right nor on the left

Lepenists who? A lot of words have been spent trying to frame the origin of the crisis in the relationship between Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda, two bad guys that this newspaper likes. And many, in recent times, have practiced on the subject by trying to address the issue from multiple points of view. There was talk of money, often inappropriately. There has been talk of incompatible characters, not always inappropriately. There has been talk of mutual jealousies, with some reason. But there was no mention, however, of an important element, a relevant political element, which concerns a robust transformation of Italian politics which has contributed to making the lives of some subjects more difficult than in the past, who grew up riding a sentiment that today has suddenly become little current, for the reasons we will see: the anti-populist platform. Obviously we are not saying that populism is dead, if only it were true, but we are saying that today being anti-populist is no longer a sufficient glue to build a strong, robust political identity capable of projecting itself towards the future.