From the “dunce Salvini” to the wild boars, Meloni entered De Luca’s media ring. And she doesn’t know what she’s gotten herself into
With Caivano's ambush he challenged the heavyweight of the media brawl: and the stand-up Governor went on the counterattack
ROME – Before calling the Prime Minister Vincenzo De Luca a “bitch”, he was, for many months, the Chuck Norris of Italy in lockdown. The governor with the flamethrower. Self-instigator and self-executor of the “sheriff’s” policy. On the web, with catchphrases and ordinances. With the right meter, the meme cuts, the right grammar. It went against everything and everyone, with scientific application: graduation parties, Halloween, baptisms, the “big boar” runners, the sentences on Juve “as clear as a bowl of bagna cauda”. Here’s what Meloni got into with Caivano’s ambush: it triggered the heavyweight champion into the media brawl. De Luca has a showman’s repertoire, he can go on for weeks. Today’s retort fire is only a possible aperitif of Vietnam.
There was a time when in Naples we lived with a conditioned reflex, a sort of post-traumatic stress: the fear that every misstep corresponded to the governor’s bullshit. And so are the political opponents, placed on a gridiron fueled with considerable imagination. Salvini more than anyone, for example. Several times “dunce”, he also told him that “he has a face like his bottom, which is also worn out”..
Today De Luca quotes Berlusconi twice for his own benefit. The first, cheeky, recalling the famous notes in which the Knight gave Meloni, numbering, “1. Opinionated 2. Overbearing 3. Arrogant 4. Offensive”. The second, for connoisseurs, when he accuses her of “refined elegance”, like her infamous dinners. Bitch? “He made a point of communicating his true identity”. All very beautiful, with the videos chopped up a bit to become viral on social media. On the other hand, at different times, he had called the new leaders of the PS “rude, imbeciles, penguins“.
Meloni had already been declared “stracciarola” by the President of Campania. And she, annoyed, had replied from Vespa’s living room: “Let’s look at how Campania has spent the cohesion funds. There I found the bean and potato festival, the bagpipe festival, the podolico caciocavallo festival, the scazzatiello festival and the cicatiello…”. Offense
The character De Luca had already eaten up the institution, reducing his imitators to a minimum: De Luca playing De Luca is much better than Crozza playing De Luca. He’s a stand up Governor. Meloni took to her stage. A ring. He challenged the Mike Tyson of political dissing. Poor her.
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