The Carnation Revolution
…oh, let's breathe a sigh of relief! The matter has been archived, it's part of the past, or the future, but not the present, and so in this blog that rejects presentism, we can finally talk about it.
I believe it is not contemptuous to state that Sergio Mattarella is a politician of the PD ( or rather : of that political area which, following long and tormented events, naturally merged into the PD of which it constitutes the nucleus): the trajectory in which he is part is clearly described by Wikipedia ( please consult it ), and if they say so, perhaps I can say it too.
I see nothing particularly strange in a Democratic Party politician choosing other Democratic Party politicians as close collaborators, including the hitherto obscure Garofani, a contemporary of mine who has made (because he wanted to) a notable career in the aforementioned area ( please consult ). I don't know about you, but if I ever had to choose who to place in an office of my direct collaboration in the future, I would hardly consider filling it with Democratic Party members, and it's absolutely obvious that reciprocity is required.
Finally, I would be very surprised if a member of the Democratic Party didn't say things that were typical of a Democratic Party!
I therefore confess to you brothers (and that's it) that I don't see the scandal that has kept us busy for 72 hours:
I'll leave aside the various ancillary questions about whether or not a conversation between people can be assimilated to a dark plot, about how far we can stretch our imaginations in imagining that loyal collaboration in the country's interest can exist between institutions, whether political or not, because they emanate directly or indirectly from parliament, about what the public and private behavior of those who hold positions in certain august institutions should be, how a similar situation would have been handled by information operators with the roles reversed, and so on. The fact that a somewhat swashbuckling chatter isn't a plan doesn't mean, of course, that a Democratic Party politician hopes for a bright future for the center-right. Nor does the fact that a Democratic Party politician, if he could, wouldn't hesitate to put a spoke in the center-right's wheels mean that such sabotage is within his reach, given that this government's approval ratings among voters have remained relatively stable, for reasons clear to us since August 22, 2011 (which, when you think about it, is a lot).
(sourceYouTrend ), and therefore rebus sic stantibus the 2027 elections seem destined, plots or no plots, Colle or no Colle, to cause further pain to the friends of the PD.
So, to recap, the fact that a PD politician chooses a PD collaborator who thinks like a PD politician seems pretty obvious to me.
What strikes me, however, is the tool with which the Democratic Party plans to hinder the inevitable, but not unpredictable, course of events it itself has triggered: the "centre list" (which is not parquet flooring, but wallpaper)!
In other words, we continue to ignore the fact that the center is a hole with the parties around it, and this hole was dug by the PD, with the support given to the governments that by implementing this program achieved this result:
(We talked about it here ). What amazes me, and, reasoning in a patriotic spirit, worries me, is that a thinking man at such a prominent institution clearly doesn't understand what the country has suffered, and isn't able to draw obvious political conclusions from the scale and timing of such an economic shock! These aren't unprecedented consequences, far from it! Indeed, they are consequences that are absolutely homogeneous across time and space , so it's astonishing that those paid to think strategically aren't able to take them into account.
These PD intellectuals, in short, prove to be surprisingly poor material, not in their form, but in their substance. We can't forgive them, precisely because they haven't yet realized what they've done to us. And until someone as irrelevant as this one realizes it:
( here ) I'd say it's even good. Someone who tweets gnegnegnègnegnegnègne (worst government ever) immediately above the graph certifying the rape of Italian growth inflicted by the Monti and Letta governments should be cherished! We need to have more allies like that!
But when this clarity of vision ("fascism has brought the country to the brink of collapse and therefore a centrist list will gain consensus and give it a push") is expressed by figures who have a place and, above all, a listening ear, well, then the situation takes on a light that is in some ways disturbing (is such blindness in important decision-making centers possible?), and in others reassuring (given that those decision-making centers are openly hostile to us, it's a good thing that they haven't understood a damn thing about what the country has been through and is going through).
In short: the problem (if it is a problem) is not whether a Democratic Party member thinks like a Democratic Party member, but what Democratic Party members think.
And like every problem, this too is an opportunity.
Just get rid of the PD members…
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/la-rivoluzione-di-garofani.html on Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:57:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.