American Greatness
Angelo Codevilla
Mar. 5, 2018
Donald Trump was not on Italy’s ballots. Italians know little of Trump, and little of what they think they know of him is true. But the question that haunted Italy, as well as the world’s political and financial elites ahead of Sunday’s vote, was whether Trump-like popular sentiment would sweep away the cozy arrangements between old-line leftist and rightist parties that have been governing the country.
The result: Trump won big.
Italy’s governing Democratic Party (the Communist Party’s descendant) was reduced to around 18 percent of the vote, cast mostly by government-empowered limousine elites as well as Communist diehards in Tuscany and Emilia. Just as important, voters made it numerically impossible for four-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to repeat the trick he had played on them five years ago, when he delivered his parliamentary contingent to the Left even though he had run on the Right. This time, the voters punished him along with the Left, and effectively ended his corrupt career. Henceforth, Italy’s Right, which racked up about 36 percent of the vote, will be led by the League—nationalist conservatives based in the country’s productive north.
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