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Should we call Giorgia Meloni a fascist? With David Broder

The Italian prime minister’s party has tried to revise its country’s fascist past.

Six months after Giorgia Meloni, leader of the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia party, became prime minister, Megan Gibson speaks to the historian and author David Broder about how Meloni has governed. They discuss whether she has confounded expectations, her relationship with other conservative movements around the world, and Silvio Berlusconi‘s legacy.

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The making and meaning of Giorgia Meloni

The struggle for Italy

Letter from Italy: attending a gathering of ultra-conservatives in Rome

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