Jul 19, 2024 · Vance’s love of Lord of the Rings is of a piece with rightward nationalists abroad. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni used to cosplay as a hobbit.

Jul 16, 2024 · Even far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni couldn’t escape Vance’s wrath. “Meloni’s victory in Italy was very much a rejection of the immigration policies in Brussels. And yet, she’s been a complete catastrophe when it comes to actually reducing migration to Italy,” Vance said in an interview in February.

Sep 17, 2022 · When a coalition led by Mussolini fangirl Giorgia Meloni won the Italian election a few days ago and placed her on the path to becoming that nation’s first fascist-esque prime minister since Il...

Oct 1, 2024 · In speeches by J. D. Vance, Tucker Carlson, Viktor Orbán, and Giorgia Meloni, journalists look for ways to understand the “New Right,” which claims to reject the economic and foreign policy dogmas of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

Oct 3, 2022 · The Italian elections produced a victory for hard-right candidate Giorgia Meloni, whose party has its roots in post-Mussolini fascist politics. This result has rightly generated consternation...

Jun 21, 2024 · Across the pond, the Ohio senator and potential Trump running mate J.D. Vance is championing an American version of populist politics that is also gaining traction. On this week’s episode,...

Aug 12, 2024 · Vance isn’t the only one with a love of “The Lord of the Rings.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been steeped in Tolkien’s literature from a young age and has also earned the ire of Politico and NYT for her conservative take on the goings-on of Middle-Earth.

Jul 18, 2024 · J.D. Vance, the newly minted Republican nominee for the vice-presidency, unexpectedly plumped for a Frenchman. Asked by Politico, a news site, earlier this year whom he looked to for inspiration,...

Dec 15, 2023 · Republican Sen. J.D. Vance tells "Face the Nation," who has praised Hungary's authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's response to university dissident in the past, tells "Face the Nation"...

Sep 26, 2022 · Once Giorgia Meloni took the lead in the Italian polls in July, she was unlikely to have it wrested from her. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party leads a three-party conservative bloc that last night took 44 percent in Italy’s national elections.