The primaries are a formidable show, but anti-fascism won’t save the Democratic Party

Among the main reasons that made the Democratic Party primary soporific is one linked to an expression that the Italian left has been desperately and erroneously trying for years to pass off as a great value: unity, my lady. If you think about it for a moment, the most interesting feature of the competition between Elly Schlein and Stefano Bonaccini was the total absence of competition between the candidates. Not in the sense that you might believe, i.e. the absence of a real match between the two, but in the literal sense of the term: zero competition, zero dialectic, zero clashes.