Italy has been the first country in the West to experience two real game changers!

The first thing was totalitarian socialism in the form of Fascism under Benito Mussolini. Now many people think he was right wing and nationalist but he began as a follower of a politician who was on the fringes, but still a leading advocate for change in Italy, Gabriele D’Annunzio, who was third or fourth in line for the idea behind two Frenchmen, Maurras and Sorrel, and an Italian named Marinetti.

The second thing was Covid 19 which devastated the northern region of Italy first in Europe, killing three people I knew.