Because Conte and Grillo will divorce
Grillo and Conte no longer have anything to say to each other, much less to advise each other. Italics published in the Libero newspaper
Even if he only wanted to consult Beppe Grilllo, given what it costs him financially, after the electoral result in Abruzzo which he himself defined as "modest", Giuseppe Conte should not feel consoled. His guarantor, as well as a communications consultant, seems even more surprised than him by what is happening around him.
On the blog once boiling with anger, imagination and the will to fight, or rather to win, and in a big way, Grillo has been reduced to repeating not exactly encouraging thoughts of Ennio Flaiano and to enlist, with them, in the "silent minority" of this country . Who has already seen other minorities like this.
GRILLO LIKE FLAIANO
“I belong to the silent minority. They are those few – in fact Grillo copied from Flaiano a dated March 9th, already before the Abruzzo vote and its surprises for those waiting for the center-right's defeat – who no longer have anything to say or wait for. What? May everything be clarified? Age has brought me the certainty that nothing can be clarified: in this country that I love the truth simply does not exist. Countries much smaller and more important than ours have their own truth, we have infinite versions of it. The causes? I leave the task of showing us the causes to historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts and round tables, I suffer the effects. And with me, a few others: because almost everyone has a solution to propose to us: their truth, that is, something that does not conflict with their interests. We will also need to invite an art historian to the round table to tell him what influence the baroque may have had on our psychology. In Italy the shortest line between two points is the arabesque. We live in a network of arabesques." And not only that – I would add thanks to the judicial and political news of recent days – a network of dossiers and the like in front of which the memory of past events such as that of the Sifar of the late general Giovanni De Lorenzo pales. Or the less distant, or closer, Pio Pompa with his declared devotion to the then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, according to epistolary confidences reprinted in Domani – and where else? – by Piero Ignazi. Which therefore today denies the center-right the right to be indignant, protest and demand ever more investigations into the tens of thousands of IT incursions carried out mainly against it by more or less state meddlers.
IS GRILLO STILL USEFUL TO CONTE?
But let's go back to the Flaiano proposed by Grillo and even a precursor of Berlusconi with that reference to the country "that I love". Do you remember the Knight's television message whose thirtieth anniversary was recently celebrated? We thought it was an idea by the usual, brilliant Berlusconi filmed by a camera stuck in a sock for who knows how special effects. And instead it was just a copycat of Flaiano, not even declared with the honesty now demonstrated by Grillo.
I wonder, with the moods he has, as well as with the shows for which he issues and sells tickets, promising or making people believe that he is, in a Pirandellian way, "other" compared to the remote and recent past; I wonder, I was saying, of what use the paid communications advisor in which the surviving founder of the 5 Star Movement has voiced himself could ever prove to Conte. I think the former prime minister needs something much more with the problems that are slow to resolve in the so-called "territories". Or which even increase to the same extent as the, for goodness sake, legitimate and very human ambitions of the professor who is already the people's advocate.
At the local level, Conte's party is struggling despite the generous help that each tate provides to it from the secretary of the Democratic Party by accepting candidatures or otherwise, such as that of Alessandra Todde in Sardinia, which achieved albeit limited success which for a while there was hope of repeating in Abruzzo with the former rector of the University of Teramo. But it was – as we saw – a completely different story. A completely different wind has blown. Flaiano's Martian didn't land there at all.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/divorzio-grillo-conte-m5s/ on Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:52:18 +0000.