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This is how Matteo Renzi’s Reformist will be

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This is how Matteo Renzi's Reformist will be

Matteo Renzi, new director of the newspaper Il Riformista (publisher Alfredo Romeo), certainly does not lack courage, I don't know if it is more equal to or inferior to vanity. Francesco Damato's italics

Welcome, of course, to Matteo Renzi in the field of journalism with today's first issue of the Riformista entrusted by the publisher Alfredo Romeo to the direction, albeit editorial and not responsible, of the former Prime Minister, leader of Italia viva and still a partner with Carlo Calenda of the suffered but always aspiring third pole of Italian politics. Which pursues the Scudetto of Montecitorio and surroundings like the Napoli team that of the current Serie A football championship, to which the Reformist of the new series has dedicated its front page as a cover.

WHAT RENZI'S REFORMIST WILL BE LIKE

The senator from Scandicci certainly does not lack courage, I don't know if it is more equal or inferior to vanity, literally exploded with that modification made to the masthead which speaks for itself. The old straight black R inherited from Sansonetti has become red, crooked and underlined, as if shaken by a kick from its new director, without an adjective. Seeing it, it has become an r like Renzi, always printed underneath in red, rather than a Reformist . Of which in the editorial he wanted to indicate a kind of decalogue with an autobiographical spirit. Reformist – he wrote under the title "Open face" – he is "one who is not in fashion", today that "the sovereignists on the right, the extremists on the left and populists everywhere work". Reformist is someone who "studies, proposes, fights, then makes mistakes, falls, starts again… always animated by a passion for reality, not for ideology".

I'M BACK RENTI

He seems to feel or re-read Indro Montanelli in his time grappling with the Christian Democrat Amintore Fanfani, whom he happily nicknamed "Here He is Again". Something that made the interested party so proud that, almost out of gratitude, he procured for Montanelli, when he broke with Corriere della Sera , the aid he needed to found his new Giornale , in the now distant 1974. Which, in truth, it ended up not being a happy year for the Christian Democrat leader, who emerged clamorously defeated by the referendum on divorce with effects destined to bring the Crusader shield to dissolution within twenty years.

RENZI BETWEEN BERLINGUER AND CRAXI

I imagine Renzi's incantations reading to me, if he ever happens to do so, perhaps on the recommendation of some mutual friend who still expects from him, like me, the courage to finally give a political review of Bettino Craxi to make him prefer it to the memory – he once said, when he was secretary of the Democratic Party and prime minister – of the historic secretary of the PCI Enrico Berlinguer. Who had mistaken the socialist leader's modernism, with constitutional reformism, anti-flationary cuts to the sliding scale of wages, tricolor socialism and more, for a rape on the left.

INTELLIGENCE NOT ONLY ARTIFICIAL ACCORDING TO RENTI

Nonetheless, I repeat, welcome to Matteo Renzi in the field of journalism and his bet on the resilience of natural intelligence – as he wrote at the end of his editorial – in the face of perhaps excessive fear that artificial intelligence is causing.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-riformista-matteo-renzi-coraggio-vanita/ on Wed, 03 May 2023 05:59:10 +0000.