Archive of For a Left Populism

The recent election signaled a decisive shift in Italian politics, marking the collapse of the parties that have ruled Italy for the past 25 years. In this interview, conducted by Lewis Bassett, David Broder surveys the state of Italian politics in the four weeks since the election, and asks where next for Italian politics.

Macron's supposed "novelty" quite simply consists of removing the semblance of contestation that still existed in the two-party system.