Clintonism, Neh?

In discussions about the almost certain election of a Fascist, and Fascism adjacent government in Italy, Hillary Clinton said, "The election of the first woman prime minister in a country always represents a break with the past, and that is certainly a good thing."

This is a snapshot of who and what she, and what Clintonism is more generally.

The policies don't matter, even if the management team is diverse.

A more nihilistic political philosophy is difficult to imagine: 

“The election of the first woman prime minister in a country always represents a break with the past, and that is certainly a good thing,” Hillary Clinton said to an Italian journalist at the Venice International Film Festival earlier this month. She was speaking of Giorgia Meloni, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, who could make history if the Brothers of Italy party does as well as expected in Sunday’s elections.

That would be one sort of break with the past. But Meloni would also represent continuity with Italy’s darkest episode: the interwar dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. As Clinton would surely concede, this is not such a good thing.

I'm not going to get into the roots of Meloni's likely victory here, but the sort of blithe acceptance of the election of a fascist because of their gender is remarkably depressing.