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David 
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Italy's apparently decided to have a collective sip of the far-right kool-aid by electing Giorgia Meloni (who seems to be politically situated somewhere between Marine Le Pen and Genghis Khan) as PM:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63029909
Still some horse-trading to play out between minor parties before the new government is confirmed – as is typical in European and particularly Italian elections – but at this stage her "Brothers of Italy" party has the highest primary vote and the numbers to form a coalition with other right-wing forces.
In the meantime, the Dunce of the Week award goes to Hillary Clinton for offering her 2 cents on the news:
https://jacobin.com/2022/09/hillary-clinton-women-far-right-italy-giorgia-meloni-feminism
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roar
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More countries to follow suit.
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David
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He'll face stiff competition, but there's a new candidate for world's worst democratically elected political leader over in Argentina:
https://jacobin.com/2023/11/argentina-election-far-right-peronism-javier-milei-inflation-crisis
| Quote: | Some of Milei’s more outlandish proposals create a sense of disbelief and even denial: his call to allow the unregulated sale of human organs, to create a market for the buying and selling of minors, to privatize all the country’s streets, etc. Naturally, no one thinks these measures can be implemented. Even his bread-and-butter proposals, like the abandonment of the Argentine peso in favor of the US dollar, are hardly feasible.
But the extravagant proposals paper over another package of measures that are very real. These more closely resemble the policies of ultraliberal finance minister Paulo Guedes in Bolsonaro’s government: fiscal austerity led by the privatization or closure of public companies, the dismissal of state workers, and a large-scale attack on public education and health, among others. Moreover, the extreme right will clearly want to go on the offensive against gender equality and LGTBQ rights (by criminalizing abortion, eliminating sex education, implementing a trans quota, etc.) in a manner similar to Bolsonaro in power.
Such a shock policy will require an authoritarian hardening of state structures: the judicial persecution of social leaders, an endorsement of police violence, unregulated access to and carrying of weapons, the revitalization of the reviled armed forces, an attempt to weaken the influence of trade unions in the workplace and, above all, the fight to undermine the strength of Argentina’s social movements in poorer neighborhoods. In short, if these measures were to be successfully implemented, it would mean a strategic defeat for the working class. |
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Jezza 
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