Esquire

Of Paolo Mossetti
Source: Esquire
It is not true that sovereignism has no intellectuals. On the contrary, It counts on several scholars who had little luck with the previous elite.
A culturally reactionary alliance, winking at right-wing extremism and the uneducated. A perfect expression of the countryside, of the suburbs and small urban centers. A force that favors simplicity of thought, practicality and communication to the belly of voters, even at the expense of the facts, of logic and truth. A political home for racists, provincial and superstitious. The Lega-5star government is usually described, In short, as anti-intellectual.
For their part, the national-populists do everything they can to confirm this image. “Salvini against intellectuals” is the title of a television broadcast from March 2019 2016, in which the future Minister of the Interior met with the philosopher Umberto Galimberti and the writer Antonio Pennacchi. In the summer of 2018 Salvini himself responded mockingly, in a Facebook post, “the anti-racist and anti-Salvini intellectuals” who had signed an appeal to open the ports to migrants. On the bank 5 place, Alessandro Di Battista had spoken of "sickle and cashmere" intellectuals to respond to the criticism of those who accused him of the decision to form a government with the League. Five years earlier, when the remote hypothesis of a government between 5 stars and PD, its leader and political guarantor, Beppe Grillo, he reacted by parodying an old Giorgio Gaber song on the blog, who recites: “Intellectuals are rational / impartial transparencies always conceptual / they are very substantial existential / superstructural and decisional”. Read More