I’ll tell you about Beppe Grillo’s latest crickets
There was a rumor that Grillo had intervened on Conte to advise him not to stiffen in the verification of the majority. Evidently he has changed his mind and now, dismissing Renzi as a putschist, or a kind of Trump of the poor, gives the feeling of encouraging the Prime Minister in the use of the abacus
We do well, for heaven's sake, to be surprised, indignant and alarmed, by friends and allies, by the blow inflicted on American democracy with the onslaught of the Trumpian "brigades" in Congress: an assault not at all folkloristic, with a woman killed and the guard national team called to face what incoming President Joe Biden has called an "insurrection". Of which Trump can personally be held responsible for first encouraging and then understanding her, still convinced that it was fraud that denied him re-election.
However, let us not forget the crisis of Italian democracy, and not only of the still virtual crisis of Conte's second government, the "Giuseppi" also helped by Trump to remain in Palazzo Chigi after the break with Matteo Salvini's League and the agreement with the Democratic Party .
Just to help the Prime Minister to recompose the Giallorossi majority around a "Recovery plan" rewritten by the Minister of Economy to implement the requests of the allies, defined by the same Count as "useful contributions" to the use of European recovery funds, Beppe Grillo on his personal blog somehow disguised himself as Cicero. And he compared Matteo Renzi to Lucio Sergio Catilina, who conspired against the Roman Republic in 63 BC, asking him how long he intends to abuse the patience of others.
Yet there was a rumor that the comedian founder and "guarantor" of the 5 Star Movement had intervened on Conte to advise him not to stiffen in the verification of the majority. Evidently he has changed his mind and now, dismissing Renzi as a putschist, or a kind of Trump of the poor, gives the feeling of encouraging the Prime Minister to use the abacus, to count the senators "responsible" for the opposition, that is, willing to replace in the majority the hated group of Renzi, or what would remain of them in case of reckoning and crisis.
Grillo, metaphorically wrapped in the tunics of the senators of ancient Rome painted in 1880 by Cesare Maccari in a fresco exhibited in a room of Palazzo Madama, does not in the least think that anyone can ask him too as long as he pretends to abuse the patience of others, and of the various emergencies that accompany that of the viral pandemic. For some time he has been imposing the reasons for his tormented movement, in an electoral and identity crisis, on the allies and the government, practically paralyzing their action. Or confusing stability with immobility, as Renzi, the alleged Catiline of our day, said to the Senate on December 30 in the declaration of vote, albeit in favor of the state budget substantially precluded from discussion in a branch of Parliament destined by now not to touch the ball .
It is an expression, the latter, already used by the President in person of the Senate on other occasions to complain of the government's habit of circumventing, or rather evading, the so-called equal bicameralism left in the Constitution after the referendum rejection of a reform Renzi himself . That was already mistaken for Catilina by a Grillo casually deployed in the no campaign with Silvio Berlusconi, Matteo Salvini, Giorgia Meloni on the right and Pier Luigi Bersani, Massimo D'Alema and Ciriaco De Mita on the left. The ease was mutual, but not for this reason exchangeable for consistency.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-gli-ultimi-grilli-di-beppe-grillo/ on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 07:19:18 +0000.