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Can anyone provide an example of Meloni being fascist, post-fascist or fascist-adjacent in practice?
Illegal immigration, mainly from Africa, doubled under her watch. She explicitly got into power on a promise of preventing it. Italy has a fairly large navy. It is an absolutely trivial matter for them to prevent illegal immigration by sea. Australia shows it can be done, Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats and then he just did it. The Italian government simply chooses not to. They choose not to send the boats back, they choose not to arrest the NGOs.
Fascism is all about action as opposed to theory. There's no talking the talk, just walking the walk - political violence is preferable to endless liberal-democratic debates. And it's hard to think of any political violence more politically correct (from a fascist POV) than expelling or blocking Africans entering the country. Meloni is a neoliberal in practice, indistinguishable from Boris Johnson, Macron or Merkel. Even Tony Abbott is a neoliberal (albeit slightly more sincere with voters), he was fine with legal mass immigration.
These politicians don't have any national concept more substantial than ideology. As far as they're concerned, as long as you believe in French values, you're French. Maybe you can't wear a burkha. But the core of fascism is a genuine biological nationalism: if you don't have that, then you can't be fascist.
Meloni was a vice president of Alleanza Nazionale between her first election in 2006 and AN merging into a big-tent right-wing party headed by Berlusconi in 2009. Her current party, Fratelli d'Italia, split out of said big tent in 2012, and mostly consists of former AN members.
Alleanza Nazionale were part of the capital-F Fascist political tradition, in the sense that they are the institutional successor of the MSI, which was explicitly founded after WW2 as a successor to Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party. The party had a complex relationship with the Mussolini family, which ended up with Allesandra Mussolini abandoning fascist politics and joining Forza Italia. The founding documents of the AN explicitly referred to the party as "post-fascist".
I am happy describing someone holding a leadership position in an explicitly post-fascist political party as post-fascist. I do not think this is controversial.
I am personally happy describing someone holding a leadership position a right-populist political party in the political tradition founded by Benito Mussolini as fascist without the "post", although reasonable people can disagree about this.
Yes but what fascist policy has she implemented? You're talking about classifications, I'm talking about action.
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