On Monday’s episode of his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson appeared to be a big fan of newly-elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a neo-fascist who was known as part of a group called the ‘Center-South Coalition’ on Sunday night. as was selected. ,
In a twisty commentary on Monday, Carlson insisted that Meloni is not actually a fascist because he is religious, and then said that Republican leaders in Congress basically suck compared to Meloni and the movement he runs.
First, in a clip you can see above, Carlson contrasts the public policy pitches Republicans are making ahead of Meloni’s 2022 election. Tucker is not a fan of the Republican pitch.
“House Republicans just told what they’re running, it’s a document called ‘Commitment to America.’ That’s okay. Maybe not much. Heard? No, you probably haven’t. You probably haven’t read it. Nobody really cares. Why? Because there’s nothing real in it.”
Carlson complained that the GOP document does not mention the “attacks on the American family you see every day”, listing concerns such as declining prosperity and less upward mobility, for example. “People are upset about it, why wouldn’t they? But no one says no.”
Then a few minutes later Carlson attempted to refute Meloni’s overly accurate description of him as a fascist, saying, “Fascists do not believe in God. God is the opponent of their power. Of course. [Meloni] A person publicly professes belief in God.”
Watch that clip here:
OK, so we know Meloni is a fascist, because she is a member of the “Brothers of Italy”, a party created by a breakaway from the country’s centre-right, The People of Freedom Party. Those breakaways, including Meloni’s, were drawn largely from membership of the National Alliance, a neo-fascist party that literally uses the symbol of the neo-fascist party Italian social movement, which itself was founded by members of the fascist parties. who were banned. After World War II.
But if that wasn’t enough, Meloni expressed admiration, literally, for Mussolini (the man who founded Fascism) and the Italian Nazi ally Giorgio Almirante, who founded the Italian Social Movement. read more here,
So, in short: she is a member of a neo-fascist party, a descendant of the original fascist parties, and has expressed admiration for Mussolini and one of Italy’s most prominent Nazis.
As far as Carlson’s suggestion that a belief in God means one cannot be a fascist, it is true that in his youth, when he still professed leftist beliefs, Mussolini was an atheist. After coming to power, he embraced the Catholic Church, became a huge supporter of it, and was widely supported by an organization of priests. They also baptized their children Catholic, and even deployed violence to suppress opposition to the agreement that created Vatican City as an independent country. Read more about it here,