Word: fascistically
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...leads has long flirted with secession, even while he and his lieutenants have served key ministerial posts in three governments of the Italian Republic. But his latest act of national scorn has brought down the fury of Berlusconi's other key ally, lower-house president Gianfranco Fini, whose post-Fascist past makes him the leader of the most explicitly patriotic faction in the three-month-old government. "A Cabinet minister cannot offend national sentiment," Fini proclaimed on Monday, demanding that Bossi "clarify" his thoughts. Bossi bit back quickly, saying that Fini would have been better off staying quiet. Senate president...
...food. The only person who may have escaped the plague is the wife (Julianne Moore) of an ophthalmologist (Mark Ruffalo). When the government, flailing into dictatorship, incarcerates the sufferers in an abandoned hospital, the doctor's wife feigns blindness and goes with him. Though the government has turned fascist, and sets armed guards around the hospital perimeter, it allows only patients inside; there they must create their own, very fallible social system, trying to keep some semblance of order and humanity while facing an overthrow from the blind ruffians in another ward...
...Fini and his allies, who have succeeded over the past decade in getting many Italians to forgive their radical right pasts, may still not quite get it. During Alemanno's ultimately successful run for mayor, the candidate responded to questions about certain allies who still proudly tout their fascist origins by noting that they had "visited Israel before Fini...
...having "Israel" stamped in your passport and publicly condemning anti-Semitism cannot alone remove lingering doubts about extremist tendencies. Mussolini's fascist ideology was all-encompassing, nationalistic and occasionally deadly - well before he adopted racial and anti-Semitic laws following Hitler's example. After his victory in Rome, Alemanno said all the right things about bringing the city together, but several of his supporters cheering him at the steps of city hall flashed the fascist Roman salute. He has made public safety his top issue in a city that statistics suggest is relatively safe, vowing to arm municipal police...
...Israel or Jews, but immigrants. During Berlusconi's last government, Fini was coauthor with rightist Northern League ally Umberto Bossi of a series of severe anti-immigration measures, including instant deportations and requirements that foreigners must have a fixed job to remain in the country. The next time fascist nostalgics or neo-Nazis attack a defenseless man on the street, there is a high probability it will be an immigrant. Such assaults in the past have indeed been aimed at immigrants. And that too is part of Mussolini's legacy...