The Guardian view on Italy’s new far-right party: the rise of a rogue general | Editorial
The early success of Roberto Vannacci’s National Future sends an ominous signal as extreme politics become normalisedWhen a serving Italian general published a far-right tract in 2023 entitled The World Turned Upside Down, a disciplinary inquiry swiftly followed. Roberto Vannacci’s text was a sustained exercise in bile and bigotry, attacking among other things the “normalisation” of homosexuality, and questioning whether a high-profile black volleyball star could really be considered Italian. The controversy sent the book into the bestseller charts, and…
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