Salvini’s folly

Many Italians are sick to death of the country’s political and economic stagnation, and Salvini was brash and new. Nasty and bullying, too, especially towards non-whites and migrants, but many people didn’t mind that.

Matteo Salvini, Italy's hard-right populist, demonized migrants, Romanies, Muslims, and left-wing 'do-gooders' as enemies of the people, and presented himself as the super-patriotic hard man who could see them all off and Make Italy Great Again.Photograph courtesy of Matteo Salvini's Twitter

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 5, 2019

There is something very gratifying about watching a political thug get hoist by his own petard. Matteo Salvini, the hard-right populist who thought he could force an early election and become Italy’s strongman by breaking up the coalition government he served in, ha...

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