Another rotten communist atheist Eurotrash.
Posted on 06/12/2023 5:56:34 AM PDT by devane617
Silvio Berlusconi may be gone, but Trump’s still here. The rotten populist legacy is everywhere | Paolo Gerbaudo When he hurriedly left the prime minister’s official residence, Palazzo Chigi, for the last time on 16 November 2011, Silvio Berlusconi looked like a humiliated man. Italy’s finances were in trouble, with international investors betting against the country’s treasury bonds; prosecutors were on his heels due to the infamous “bunga bunga” scandal, which involved an underage sex worker; European allies Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel had made their displeasure with him public. Few would have guessed at the time how much future politics would follow Berlusconi’s populist template.
Berlusconi has died at 86 – he had been in hospital in Milan, undergoing treatment for a lung infection. Yet look around, and you can see his legacy everywhere. In fact, the years that followed Berlusconi’s exit from office vindicated his political style, which combined extreme personality politics, a skilful use of visual media and an unashamed demagogy – all to tap into voters’ disillusionment and cynicism about the status quo. It is hard to think of another politician more prefigurative of politics to come.
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“Rotten populist legacy”
Sums up the privileged elitist attitude pretty well.
Death by Bunga Bunga?
Another rotten communist atheist Eurotrash.
Leftists are just upset that others have figured out how to use their own weapons against them.
Populism is a threat to “democracy” you see, because if people start voting in their own interests instead of what some carnival barker on television tells them to vote for, then the carnival barkers’ financiers might lose their jobs and access to taxpayer money.
WOW! Hey lame stream “betters”..............phu cough!
A vile obituary for Sylvio Berlusconi from the extreme leftwing Guardian.
Dance on the man's grave why doncha?!
Politically, Italy has been a mess since the end of WWII. Not that prior to WWII things were perfect either. But somehow the country keeps moving. Berlusconi for all his faults was actually one of the better PMs in recent Italian history.
“Populist” == nobody likes him except the people.
They are furious that populism remains more popular than Marxism. But attacking its leaders will not change that.
Populism is rotten. But oligarchs in Davos, DC and London, directing our lives to their advantage is natural and beautiful.
I guess I missed something. Jeffrey Epstein’s “clients” were from the “populist” persuasion? The decadence of Hollywood and the media is because of “populists?”
How dare anyone represent the mentality and desires of the stinking People when self-appointed elites know so much better...
Paulo can point to where Berlusconi touched him on the doll.
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