Giorgia Meloni’s Respectable Mask
How Italy's prime minister sells stability abroad while normalising post fascism at home
Giorgia Meloni's rise is often packaged as moderation and competence. The story sells well in Brussels and Washington, where steady markets and alignment on Ukraine earn applause. Look closer at home and a different picture comes into focus. Borders are hardened and detention is pushed offshore, public media is pressured and politicised, protests meet heavier policing, and a constitutional redesign concentrates power in the name of governability.
The party keeps the tricolour flame that ties today to yesterday, not as nostalgia but as continuity by choice. The method is administrative, small legal tweaks and technical fixes that look neutral while they shift the civic balance. Stability becomes the alibi, rights become the price. Call it what it is, the quiet normalisation of post fascism inside a G7 democracy. Our full investigation traces the roots, decodes the doublespeak, follows the money and the laws, and sets out what to watch next.
Stability is the alibi. Rights are the price.