Desperately looking for crisis
Of Pietrangelo Buttafuoco
Source: Pietrangelo Buttafuoco
If they had formed the government with the Democratic Party instead of with Matteo Salvini, the Cinquestelle - today - would not be the disaster reported every day by the information machine: the subjunctives would not be wrong, the Sardinian deputy insulted in the supermarket would have an escort like not even a Saviano, no one would dream of investigating Luigi di Maio's removable swimming pool, much less would there be any need to look into the workers paid illegally in the latter's father's company (or like in that of the legendary and very nice Vittorio Di Battista: we needed to hear this too…).
If instead of with the League, Today, to tutor Beppe Grillo's children in government were the luminous heirs of the former Communist Party - happily welded to the old cultural powers, strategic and financial – not a fly would be buzzing around the maneuver. The Corriere della Sera, with Giavazzi & Alesina, he would find it flawless. And so is Repubblica, and even La Stampa: worthy of Gianni Agnelli, good soul. Read More

