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#Negotiation & #Conflict Management MD Sea-Change Partners Harvard Negotiation Project Tufts & Harvard Kennedy School Conflict Advisor, Photographer, RT=retweet
Sep 26, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Well...There it is. Fascism returns to Italy.

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's new Prime Minister, gives a speech that could well have been given by Mussolini, himself.

The concept of Family is apparently under attack.
Her identity is also under attack.
She is apparently not allowed... ...to practice her religion.
And her country is under attack (by immigrants and the radical woke Left, I'm sure)

Also, she has no freedom to liver her live because of "financiers." No fascist speech would be complete without the anti-semitic dog-whistle.
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Sep 26, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Benito Mussolini, much like Donald Trump, was a kind of clown-showman narcissist who bluffed and brutalized his way to power, riding the anger of a desperate mob that knew only the persona he projected. He raped his way to an undeserved reputation as a virile "ladies' man." He... Hired violent thugs to beat and murder his critics, as he made promise after promise to the mob that he knew he neither would, nor could, ever keep.

When the rallies ended, and it came time to perform, his incompetence and lack of substance were on full display.

He launched...