Some are wondering, is Italian Fascism back? Truth is, it never really died. | | Thanks to @PolyMatter, @hoogyoutube, and @IMPERIALYT for help with the title and thumbnail!
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Many believe that fascism in Italy died along with Mussolini’s fascist regime after World War Two. But it didn’t. Reborn immediately after the war as Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement) or MSI, and reinvented several times since, neo-fascist politics has persisted in Italy. So, while Giorgia Meloni may be Italy’s first far-right leader since WWII, she’s nothing new to Italian politics. The real question is — is she dangerous? And yes, she is. With the help of some democratic theory about the perils of presidentialism, we explain why.

Spectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world.
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00:00 INTRO
01:23 I — RECONSTRUCTION
04:21 II — TOTAL COLLAPSE
07:02 III — GHOST OF FASCISM
08:59 IV — A BAD SOLUTION
12:00 V — SCORE & RANK