Fascism Returns in Italy: Giorgia Meloni Claims Victory, Allied with Right-Wing Parties Across Europe

Italy's first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini, Giorgia Meloni, has declared victory. Her Brothers of Italy party is allied with Spain's far-right Vox party, Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice party and the Sweden Democrats party, which emerged out of its neo-Nazi movement. We look at the return of fascism in Italy" with professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," who says that Meloni, a self-declared conservative, really sees her party as carrying the heritage of fascism into today." Ben-Ghiat also describes why Meloni is part of a transnational design" to create a far-right political culture across Europe.