I've spent the past hour listening to some of her speeches. This woman is the real deal. And she's the real deal in English and Spanish, which she speaks fluently as well as Italian.

I had noticed that the mainstream news outlets of just about every country in the EU, and of course the usual suspects here, were all aligned in comparing her to Mussolini and Hitler and all the rest. It was no holds barred. They quite openly used these comparisons which used to be considered almost so severe that you wouldn't say something like that lest you cheapen the danger that fascism actually represented. I must've scrolled through 100+ links to news articles, every one of which branded her far right or fascist.

She said nothing of the sort in any of the speeches I listened to.

• She's pro-Italy, and wants other countries to stand for their own interests as well. MAGA, properly understood and applied to all nations.
• She's anti-immigrant, because she believes that mass immigration robs their home countries of the work forces they need to make their own countries better. All the capable, working age men leave, who's going to do the work to build their home countries?
• She's pro-Christian, anti-secularist, and anti-Islam and she distinguishes between Islam's faith in Allah and Sharia which she deliberately calls out and identifies specifically as the idea which must be stopped.
• She's not against international agreements, though she does point out that those agreements must respect the sovereignty of individual members and that the members indeed have the right to act in their own interests at all times and should never be forced to comply with a larger body. As with all human interactions, this one too, must be voluntary.

I wish her the best of luck. Get that shrew Von Der Leyen, too, for that little comment about the EU having methods to punish people that step out of line with the communists, while she's at it.