She said recently that Mussolini was a great politician
You don't think Mussolini was a great politician?
What about Hitler?
Do you think bad politicians can convince the population that genocide is a viable option?
if that's not fascist...
No, that isn't fascism.
Why does nobody know what fascism is?
Fascism is rooted in violence and absolute totalitarian control (in practice).
Making a comment about a fascist isn't fascist.
Even if the thing that was said has a positive connotation.
If you think that bad politician means bad person and good politician means good person...
I don't really know what to tell you.
Those two things clearly have an inverse correlation.
Also let's not forget that most of the news outlets that reported on this... didn't mention the thing you just said. They just blindly parroted the narrative with, again, zero evidence. Do I need to bust out the ten clips I just watched on it or what? It's obvious that what I'm saying is accurate. Why do you think that speech is being censored now? Because they fucked up the optics and needed to get rid of the footage that makes them look like idiots.
No, apart from the moral perspective, I don't think they were even decent politicians. What I think is that they were good opportunists that handled well the rage of a depressed population. In that context, they knew how to use in their favor the rage of the mob. Hitler obviously capitalized well the Versalles treaty which was very unfair to the germans after losing the WWI, Mussolini was an apprentice of Primo de Rivera a Spanish dictator that he admired (admitted by himself).
Fascism hasn't a clear ideology, basically has some core hate speeches (racism, classism and dictatorial ways in these issues ).
Meloni has claimed that will stop the illegal immigration, denying the entry to ports the ONG's uses to save people crossing the Mediterranean. You could say that this is arguably legit but I'm not so sure about it.
If I had to claim that someone was a good politician among the totalitarian leaders then I'd name Goebbels who was the propaganda minister of Hitler. He innovated in that area and some govs use still his methods.
Meloni in Italy, Le Pen in France, Abascal in Spain, are part of a fascist international in Europe imo. We can discuss it further if you want, you have my respect so I'm open to this debate. Cheers.