With the indictment of Trump in the case of payments to Stormy Daniels, a little light is being shone again to shed light on the usual stupidity of the Loffio comparison between him and Berlusconi. Money, television, selfishness, real estate, lawyers, women and what used to be called happy ladies. The fact that the indictment for the American tycoon could perhaps, very possibly, have a happy ending, facilitating what has been a dangerous political resurgence and turning him back into a supervictim adds a twist to the comparison. Proposal for big palates, ridiculous for connoisseurs.
The only real similarity between the two is that they were expelled from the political system, but Berlusconi, after the judiciary threatened to destroy the parties while until then part of the ruling establishment, was the republic’s old democracy to which he financed Television pluralism against state monopoly and major innovations in industrial language. Trump has always been a patron of populist and narcissistic television, not a liberal and intuitive publisher in his own right, and he has been more than excluded, more than marginalized and ruthlessly provoked in his egoolatric ambitions and in his age-old ideology of America First with deep roots in the fascist isolationist American of the Lindberghs and in the traditions of southern demagogues a la Huey Long.
For the rest, the reality is visible to all. By founding the centre-right under adventurous circumstances, Berlusconi embodied the reform of the system, a phenomenon that still persists despite its relative marginalization, and integrated extraterrestrial forces like the Northern League and the MSI, transformed into a legitimate ruling party. Trump did exactly the opposite: he dismantled and is still trying to destroy the bipartisan balance of Democrats and Republicans, hijacked the Grand Old Party in a smoky rhetoric that even led to denial of the legitimacy of the presidential election, i.e. the end of the liberal democracy to obfuscate conspiracy theories, to manage fear and lies, all for the benefit of transforming the people into an anonymous and superstitious mass. For at least twenty years, until his chaotic but impeccable exit from power, Berlusconi dominated both government and opposition power without twisting a hair in the institutions, serving with the manners of a friendly hostess and defending himself against the political, Media and judicial rage that wanted him dead and buried at all costs. With a wacky, megalomaniac and self-deprecating element that was worthy of ending in a musical on the London scene, not a dark-episode fantasy like its hypothetical American counterpart.
We are not talking about solidary foreign policy with the free world to the point of Putin’s drifting away, but this is not a serious matter and begins at a time when Putin was being courted by NATO and the West, also in terms of integration and not international brawls ; Let’s not talk about economic and social policies, a sober revival of liberal ideas and programs without believing too much, and a more or less wise administration of the existing. (Continued in Appendix XVI)
And let’s also overlook an impulse to reassess freedoms that has brought him into the Western European family without too much effort and without that anarchist insurrection that Trump has turned into an adept and murderous driving force in several episodes and moments.
Let’s talk about women and girls instead. the Cav. Notoriously consoling himself with a vanished marriage and the passage of time, he formed a compensatory harem and began an Italian comedy story very different from the Stormy Daniels case in both donations to the girls and enlistment and direction the famous elegant dinners and for the generous attempt to rescue Mubarak’s granddaughters from the clutches of the guardians of decency. For its pseudo-counterpart we will see, but the Cav. He has enjoyed acquittals because the fact does not exist three times. Trump was instead a harasser whose payments were cynically entrusted to lawyers and indictments said to have been taken from election funds, while Berlusconi was a suitor and a ruthless love butterfly who raked in a string of monies from the flare of his private successes and personal luxuries, raking in a slew of monies within sight of the women in sight public proscenium, which we have already catalogued, and it is majestic in its own way. Speaking of mainstreaming and story surprises, if I’m not mistaken, your ex-girlfriend is a potential leader of a civil rights movement.