The crickets of Grillo
The Scratches of Damato
It is now difficult to find even the opening words for an article on Beppe Grillo , his role in this legislature has become so funny and unreal that it should have even marked its "centrality" to the onset of a third or fourth Republic. The count of its editions has also been lost after the end of the first marked by the 1994 political elections: those won, surprisingly by the “playful” candidates for success under the guidance of Achille Occhetto , by Silvio Berlusconi . Which is another for which, however, it is difficult to find the opening words of an article dedicated to his political adventure after all the situations to which he had to adapt to stay on the scene: up to mistaking Matteo Salvini for a "real" leader, screwed up even by someone like Alessandro Di Battista in the practice of buying a plane ticket to Moscow, without having to go through the Russian embassy.
The physicist to imagine Moses, called by the "Supreme", as he has just proposed on his blog, to untie the knots tangled in the 5 Star Movement after last Sunday's electoral fiasco, can also be recognized by the Genoese comedian, even at a cost of blasphemy. But I fear, for him, that by now there is very little to do at the bedside of his child. What luck instead for Enrico Letta , smarter than his predecessor Nicola Zingaretti al Nazareno, having been able to boil Giuseppe Conte better in the pot of the majority.
Now it must necessarily be recognized that there is no longer a match of credibility between the Count himself and the young Luigi Di Maio , in fact proposed either to undermine him, although protected by Grillo disguised as Moses, or to go away to further break down a movement that has now become a trap. In which the tuna, in fact, struggle in desperation, uselessly resisting the decimation obtained with the reduction of parliamentary seats and with the noose of no more than two possible terms. A noose that Grillo has decided to tighten, in the exercise of his functions as guarantor and anything else, for even chemical reasons, he seems to understand. Indeed, there would be no human condition possible for not making a deputy or senator elected three times a professional in politics. Cui Grillo famously prefers amateurs: the only ones, in fact, capable of being fascinated by them.
Things in the Grillino movement had already gotten bad for them in the first improvised majority in the legislature that came out of the polls in 2018. But then the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine came to bare the limits of an adventure that began with blatantly adventurous intentions. The only luck that the political system has had in this tragedy is to have had a President of the Republic at the Quirinale who was able to seize the opportunity of the pandemic, not even imagining the war emergency that would have occurred, to send Mario to Palazzo Chigi Dragons . I imagine Conte in his place, on that train bound for Kiev with Macron and Scholz, to weave the web of protection of Ukraine and, more generally, of Europe from the aggression of Putin's Russia, and I simply shudder. Sure, we got away with it.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/i-grilli-di-grillo/ on Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:46:30 +0000.