With Meloni the word “nation” is back in vogue, but it is not clear what it refers to

All democracies were born and developed in the context of nation states, and yet in Italy and other European countries an idea of ​​democracy has become established in the cultural mainstream, which considers citizens as members of a democratic cosmopolis. Story of an unsolved misunderstanding

One cannot fail to notice that Giorgia Meloni, in her speeches and public statements, often uses the word “nation” to refer to what has long been defined as “country” (or “our country”). It is a fairly obsolete word in common language, the use of which will have surprised someone and perhaps induced someone else to link it to the political tradition from which the probable next Prime Minister comes, as if the term has a clear right-wing connotation. This is not exactly the case.