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Fascism, techno and The Big Bang Theory — inside the mind of Giorgia Meloni
How many political leaders on the world stage can claim to have made their name thanks to a cheesy techno track? The way Giorgia Meloni tells it, the DJ who sampled one of her strident speeches in 2019 was trying to poke fun at her but instead helped to launch her career. 'I am Giorgia. I am a woman. I am a mother. I am Italian. I am a Christian. You will never take that away from me,' she yelled at a crowd of 200,000 in Rome, three years before becoming Italy's first female prime minister.
Meloni cites the speech, and the song that used the words, at the start of her autobiography to prove that identity is the driving force of politics. And she claims Italians agree with her — after all, they danced to the track and then voted for her.
