Long marginalized politically and ostracized socially, the new prime minister’s supporters sense a chance to give a final blow to the stigma and shame of their association with Fascism.
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Giorgia Meloni Leads Voting in Italy, in Breakthrough for Europe’s Hard Right
Early results suggested her nationalist party would be the top vote-getter, leaving Ms. Meloni poised to be Italy’s first female prime minister and the first with post-Fascist roots.
Italian Official Resigns After Uproar Over His Plans to Name Park After Fascist
Claudio Durigon, a member of the right-wing League party and a deputy economy minister, had proposed to rename a park after Benito Mussolini’s brother.
Has Trump’s Reckoning Come Too Late?
Finally the world agrees that Trump is exactly the man his fiercest critics said he was. But has the reckoning come too late?
Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump
Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s “Strongmen” examines a long list of tyrants in the modern era.