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Giorgia Meloni quotes GK Chesterton, who, like her, held questionable views on Jews, race, & immigration. He believed women belong in the home, & women’s suffrage was a cause of unhappiness among his peers. According to Chesterton, Meloni shouldn't even speak in public.
Giorgia Meloni quotes GK Chesterton, who, like her, held questionable views on Jews, race, & immigration. He believed women belong in the home, & women’s suffrage was a cause of unhappiness among his peers. According to Chesterton, Meloni shouldn't even speak in public.
Chesterton wrote "the essence of Nazi Nationalism is to preserve the purity of a race in a continent where all races are impure." Yet Meloni talks of the threat of “ethnic substitution” & of the need to defend our “genetic code”. Ethnic nationalism is the essence of #fascism.
When Meloni denounces George Soros as the 'enemy', & speaks of her resistance to becoming a “perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators”, she is (un)subtly conflating financial oppression & Jews. Financial speculators preying upon Christians is an old antisemitic trope.
Chesterton called himself a Zionist because he thought getting Jews to go to Israel was a good way of ridding them from Europe. He believed that "19th-century capitalism was essentially usury, hence anti-Christian". Chesterton & Meloni see Jews as the merchants of Venice.
On the same day Italians voted to hand Giorgia Meloni victory, the Vatican was celebrating the church’s “World Day of Migrants & Refugees”.
Pope Francis: “Migrants are to be welcomed, accompanied, promoted & integrated.” 'Catholic' Meloni says she “doesn’t understand” the Pope.
Pope Francis: “Migrants are to be welcomed, accompanied, promoted & integrated.” 'Catholic' Meloni says she “doesn’t understand” the Pope.
#Neofascism usually includes ultranationalism, racial supremacy, populism, authoritarianism, nativism, xenophobia, anti-immigration sentiment & opposition social democracy, Marxism, communism, & socialism. Meloni is MUCH closer to the @Conservatives than UK voters dare to think.
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