{"id":9893,"date":"2018-03-05T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=9893"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T18:28:55","slug":"italy-gives-europes-elites-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/italy-gives-europes-elites-the-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy gives Europe&#8217;s elites the boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3184.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3184.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3184-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a> Matteo Salvini celebrates his party\u2019s showing in the election at a press conference in Milan. Photograph: Nicola Marfisi\/AGF\/Rex\/Shutterstock<\/h6>\n<h6>Image source:The Guardian, <em>Matteo Salvini: far-right leader steps out of Berlusconi&#8217;s shadow<\/em> &#8212; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/05\/matteo-salvini-the-italian-far-right-leader-stepping-out-of-berlusconis-shadow<\/h6>\n<p><strong>===================================================<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>American Thinker<\/strong><br \/>\nby Monica Showalter<br \/>\n3\/5\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The great wave continues.\u00a0\u00a0First Brexit in the U.K.\u00a0\u00a0Then Donald Trump in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0And now Italy.\u00a0\u00a0Not every country on Europe has managed to elect an outsider in direct contravention to its country&#8217;s out-of-touch elites, although they all have factions for it.\u00a0\u00a0But Italy, with the world&#8217;s eighth largest economy, has, joining the U.S. and Britain to signal that the larger economies are moving this way, rebuking their elites and reclaiming their sovereignty.\u00a0\u00a0According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/05\/italy-turns-back-on-europe-as-election-points-to-hung-parliament\">The Guardian<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A majority of Italian voters have supported Eurosceptic candidates in the national election, preliminary results showed, after decades in which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/italy\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\">Italy<\/a>\u00a0has steadfastly championed the European project.<\/p>\n<p>Early results released by the interior ministry on Monday morning, as ballots continued to be counted, pointed to a hung parliament, though there was still a possibility that the centre-right coalition, with about 37% of the vote, could secure a majority once parliamentary seats are allocated.<\/p>\n<p>Either result would represent a repudiation of Brussels by Italian voters, less than two years after the UK narrowly voted to leave the European Union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Obviously, Italians are tired of not recognizing their county anymore.\u00a0\u00a0They&#8217;re battered by a European Union that has sucked the life out of their country&#8217;s economy with its out-of-touch currency, a death spiral in its own population, and now a migrant wave flooding the country, giving uneducated, unassimilated migrants from hellish cultures more rights than ordinary Italians along with access to the public till.\u00a0\u00a0No, they don&#8217;t recognize their country much after events like that.\u00a0\u00a0There was a recent cake-baking in one Italian town to celebrate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/03\/03\/italian-town-bakes-cake-celebrate-booting-migrants\/\">exit of its migrants<\/a>, which gives a whiff of the sentiment.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>View the complete article including links and comments at:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/italy_gives_europes_elites_the_boot.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/italy_gives_europes_elites_the_boot.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matteo Salvini celebrates his party\u2019s showing in the election at a press conference in Milan. Photograph: Nicola Marfisi\/AGF\/Rex\/Shutterstock Image source:The Guardian, Matteo Salvini: far-right leader steps out of Berlusconi&#8217;s shadow &#8212; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/05\/matteo-salvini-the-italian-far-right-leader-stepping-out-of-berlusconis-shadow =================================================== American Thinker by Monica Showalter 3\/5\/2018 Excerpt: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/italy-gives-europes-elites-the-boot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9895,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/revisions\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}