A few days ago we mentioned here that the pendulum of history, of the mood and spirit of our time, may have reached its limit and started to swing back. Today we see that this is advancing rapidly. Trump contaminates everything he touches and his best praetorians are beginning to notice it. Orbán’s resounding defeat last Sunday is the biggest warning to navigators. Meloni has learned the lesson and did not take a minute to turn like that pendulum: now she supports the Palestinians, breaks the military agreement with Israel, loudly defends the Pope, and any day now will dismantle the concentration camp she set up in Albania to deport immigrants. A blink and you miss it, because the turnaround knows no limits.
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And it is precisely in Italy where a clear-sighted and energetic voice arises against Meloni, against Trump, and against nonsense, following the path of Pedro Sánchez and pointing out something very interesting: the fear stirred up by the far right now turns against it. Word of Elly Schlein, leader of the PD, to La Vanguardia.
Trump is terrifying when he arbitrarily attacks Iran and when he threatens to destroy it in a single day because we know he can do it. He is frightening when he tries to intimidate the Pope, a new legitimized voice against tyrants that returns to citizens abandoned by their servile or silent leaders, especially in Europe, the feeling that he is one of us. Like Vox, it is frightening when a deputy climbs onto the Congress podium to challenge parliamentary authority or when it defends violent struggle against euthanasia or abortion in the Murcia Assembly. Yes, Vox is frightening. The ultra international that pretended to be attractive smells bad, and its emanations are heavy. As Schlein says, we want peace, protection, security. Society may be angry, but in general it does not want destruction.
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Interesting moment. The far right has used fear so much that it is now the one provoking it. The pendulum’s return signals the weariness of that violent and bullying language and does not exactly mean it is moving left, but the left is reacting as an anti-Trump model, and that will be very visible these days at the Barcelona summit. In the middle, the PP is swallowing many toads to make a pact with Vox and reach power in several communities, as it will do in the national government. But that pendulum is watching them and the Moreno Bonillas are starting to be more glamorous than the Ayusos. Feijóo should be careful and, just in case, keep his beard wet.
