Marco Follini, former senator and great expert in Italian politics, analyzes the new political season that opened with the installation of Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi. "Arthur Schlesinger, the great American historian who inspired John Kennedy and built the myth of the 'new frontier', wrote a book in which he theorized that American history was a long succession of 'cycles'. So there was the progressive and the conservative cycle, then the cycle of isolationism and that of interventionism on the international scene and so on. A continuous back and forth of trends have alternated between the different natures of the country. In the same way, Italian politics almost cyclically alternates certain tendencies." In an analysis, the former senator explains "Specifically, Italian politics goes from phases in which it tends to divide in two, opposing right and left even very radically, to phases in which instead it tends to converge towards the center. The truth is that, in our case, cycles more often mix and almost get confused." "The truth - adds Follini - is that Italian politics badly tolerates the monotony of patterns that repeat themselves too much".
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