Extremism always comes wrapped in centrism

Your brain on Murdoch

Australia’s right-wing commentariat are having a quite a moment in the wake of the election of Giorgia Meloni, the candidate for the far-right Brothers of Italy Party. (If you have any doubts about the party’s neo-fascist bone fides, maybe read this or this.)

To justify their enthusiasm or schadenfreude or whatever it is, local conservatives must make th…