death of the left

Of Marcello Veneziani

Source: Marcello Veneziani
Upon closer inspection, Matteo Renzi was the last tram, the last trump card for the GMO left. Dopo di lui il disastro. Not even the scorching one, The crushing electoral defeat reveals the conditions in which the left is currently reduced. Incomparable shreds, wandering packs without direction and destination, total absence of leadership and credible programs for the country, survival of only a few oligarchies and then that's it. Today it alternately clings to anti-populism or the Grillini.
With Renzi, albeit due to a spectacular misunderstanding, the left touched the sky of 40% of approval with one finger. Short parable, then ended with a pigeon shoot by the most barbarians to bring down the "little tyrant", which however had brought them to the top of consensus, leading the country almost alone. Renzi missed "the appointment with history" when he didn't have the courage and stature to go through with his Party of the Nation, transverse, that left the old one behind, rancid, rancorous anti-fascist left to gain centrality in the country. He got scared, Renzi, of the hostilities gathered on the left, he tried to recover among his own; then crippled by the referendum, he tried in vain to relocate himself to the centre-left, pretending to be some kind of Prodi 2.0. And there it gradually lost pieces, managing to lose the sympathies gained in the center and on the right, without gaining the slightest sympathy on the left. But Renzi collapsed, the left is in dust, with no direction of travel, it only leverages resentment towards populists. Read More