Italy’s Giorgia Meloni & American Conservatives

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, recently visited Washington, with the aim of aligning her country more closely with the United States — and laying the groundwork for pulling out of the China-led Belt and Road Initiative. American conservatives should take note.

Many in the Republican Party, encouraged by the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and by the success of “populist” and “far-right” parties across Europe, would like to reshape American conservative politics in the European image. National conservatives, integralists, and many others are trying to put policy meat on the bones of Trump’s moment in American politics. All of them would be well advised to take a closer look at Meloni and right-wing leaders in countries such as Sweden, Finland, and Poland, instead of remaining fixated on Meloni’s influential Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán.

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Dalibor Rohac

Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, recently visited Washington, with the aim of aligning her country more closely with the United States — and laying the groundwork for pulling out of the China-led Belt and Road Initiative. American conservatives should take note.

Many in the Republican Party, encouraged by the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and by the success of “populist” and “far-right” parties across Europe, would like to reshape American conservative politics in the European image. National conservatives, integralists, and many others are trying to put policy meat on the bones of Trump’s moment in American politics. All of them would be well advised to take a closer look at Meloni and right-wing leaders in countries such as Sweden, Finland, and Poland, instead of remaining fixated on Meloni’s influential Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán.