Berlusconi won for many reasons, but not because he was moderate

Someone had begun to think that the left was full of losers to be scrapped, and that to win you had to be good, good like him. And instead you had to be good, good but different: the opposite of him

To the director – How much journalists like it (he liked it too) the tale of “moderate Berlusconi”. The leader of the moderates, indeed. Berlusconi has never been moderate in anything. For the bad, and sometimes even for the good. Limits he has never known or recognized, whether they were the Constitution or a bit of continence (“limit yourself”, only to others), whether it was the time that passed or the taxes to be paid or the truth in speaking. Borders, not even: no right has ever been too right for him. So limitless that he managed to make the immense lie believe that the extremists to fear in Italy were the former PCI: people who in the Ulivo were even more fearful and cautious than the former Christian Democrats.