Midterm, Fdi sees a lesson for Trump and the Maga: «Meloni is the model for the right of the future»

The Italian government had hoped for a halfway defeat of Donald Trump, with the Republicans confirmed at least a majority in the Senate. Instead, the midterm elections in the US made the prophecy of a completely lame duck come true, without the control of Congress and therefore "capable of anything". Giorgia Meloni has no intention of commenting: she has kept a safe distance from the vote and will continue to do so. But the mood, at Palazzo Chigi and on the right in Parliament, is clear.

Early in the morning, it is the Melonian MP Ylenja Lucaselli, Fdi group leader in the Budget Committee in the Chamber, who makes clear the mood: during "Breakfast in America", the live broadcast of Adnkronos, she says that the lesson of the defeat of the Republican Party is «first and foremost for Trump, for American politics and for the sometimes slightly over the top management of some issues which are instead very dear to the American people». "I believe - he adds - that the Republicans of America want to return to the true Republican Party, which evidently Trump has never actually represented".

While considering the temptation of "stadium support for one or the other candidate in a different nation, with different needs, with a completely different culture" to be inappropriate, the deputy highlights the line: "It is absolutely clear that the way of interpreting conservatism that has been done above all by Italy thanks to President Meloni is the one that outlines the future of the center-right parties." This is the gamble played so far quietly by Rome: supporting the "Meloni model" as the "new conservatism" that the foreign press had already traced in the Italian experience. A mix between the traditional values ​​dear to the right - the homeland, the family, the identity - and pragmatism.

"A nation is truly such when it knows how to recognize the value of those who defended it, preserve their memory and transmit to the new generations the pride of belonging to it", writes the prime minister to celebrate November 4, Armed Forces Day. In fact, while waiting to see whether Marine Le Pen will truly conquer the Elysée in France in spring 2027, Meloni is today the only right-wing leader considered capable of embodying a winning alternative to the Maga culture. Firm in the saddle to the point of leading the Government to beat the record for longevity in republican history and keeping his party at around 28% of the vote in the polls for four years in a row.