“But as a fascist, the DC returns with Meloni”. Speak Round

“When they understand that Giorgia Meloni is not the new fascism, but the new DC, it will be late for them. They didn’t see us come back.” Gianfranco Rotondi he launches his provocation on Twitter. It is known that the eternal Christian Democrat of Irpinia (copyright Salvatore Merlo), after the crush on Silvio Berlusconi who was his best man at his wedding and of which he was minister for the implementation of the program in 2008, now he has a megagalactic crush on Meloni. Elected to the Chamber on the FdI lists, on his birthday, a dinner in Rome that last July, before the electoral victory, presented the premier to the establishment, already predicted a very Christian-Democratic ending “Tonight the DC baptizes Giorgia, more Merkel than Thatcher ”. And yet Francesco Lollobrigida, Ignazio La RussaJohn Donzelli they don’t really look like Moro, Forlani or Zaccagnini. In fact, they might perhaps take it as an insult. “AND in fact they are not – Rotondi immediately interrupts us -, but this does not mean that Meloni and his men cannot behave like a new DC, on the other hand many Christian Democrats weren’t Christian Democrats…”. Confusion. Explain to us better.

“So – the Christian Democrat-Melonian Rotondi takes a deep breath before leaving for a long and psychedelic reasoning – on paper a Christian Democrat is a believer who adheres to Sturzo’s conviction that a Christian must do politics in a party of Christian inspiration, but a secular one, must have read Maritain, must have followed the social doctrine of the church. Within this horizon he could be a conservative, attentive to moral Catholicism or a progressive, attentive to social Catholicism, they coexisted in the DC, but was the role of the DC really this: to implement the social doctrine of the church? to answer himself, Marzullianamente, alone. “But absolutely not. The right answer is another: the DC was the party that united Italians against communism and played an anti-progressive social bloc that was first fascist, then Berlusconi and today is MelonianI believe in this theory of the professor George Galli That he was the bete noire of the Italian Christian Democrats because he told them the truth: you are conservatives”. And the left DC? “There was indeed, he wanted to compete with the PCI in the ‘who is more progressive’ game, calling a Christian Democrat a conservative could be an indelible insult, but a party is made up of leaders and an electorate, sometimes the former is against The second one, the Christian Democrat electorate was the conservative blocthe Lombard neo-Guelphs, the small business, the widespread middle class of the south, the Roman bureaucratic generon, the same bloc that had known a reactionary adventure with fascism became Christian Democratswithout this continuity we do not understand the history of Italy”.

All right, but let’s get to Meloni. What does it have to do with DC? “This large bloc – continues the deputy – had three leaderships in the 1900s: an authoritarian and charismatic one with Mussolini, a democratic and collegial one, the DC, the third charismatic and democratic, Silvio Berlusconi. What is Meloni now? Does he represent this bourgeoisie? I think yes. For some left it risks resembling the first, fascism, but let’s face it it’s a ridiculous comparison. To Berlusconi then? Not even Giorgia has a certain charisma, but she doesn’t have the world behind her that Silvio had. So what’s left? The collective and democratic strength of the DC, on the other hand, was born in a party organized in the old-fashioned way, it is strong with its international allies, it seems to me that it already proposes a scheme closer to the Christian Democrat one than to that of the centre-right known since 1994 to date”. The fact remains that FdI doesn’t quite look like the old white whale. “I see it like this, either it will become one or a new DC can arise next to FdI that supports MeloniI’m not speaking pro domo mea, because, as an old master of mine used to say, mine is the safest career because it’s all behind me”.