Dare you question that in the United States, in these paradoxical elections, at least something strange could have happened? Or that voting by mail is objectively problematic to manage? You instantly become a Donald J. Trump cheerleader. The British newspaper The Independent, indeed, defined the leader of the League Matteo Salvini “the Italian cheerleader“by US President Donald Trump, accusing him of spreading”false conspiracy theories about voting in the US presidential election“. What will the leader of the carroccio have said so scandalous as to provoke the indignant reaction of theIndependent? The reference is to the statements that Salvini made in an interview today with Radio24. “On the fact that in some counties there are more files than citizens, it seems right and necessary to be clear to the end. It is as if there were two million ballots in Milan, while 1.2 million people vote. Then whoever wins, wins. America remains a great democracy“, Salvini declared today.
The Northern League leader, notes the British newspaper, has never hidden his support for Trump: he appeared in public with Maga hats, “Trump 2020” masks, and copied some of Trump’s slogans in the 2018 Italian elections when he used “Italians first” as the slogan of his campaign. But the question is: what’s wrong with that?
The Independent’s absurd attack on Salvini
Since, like it or not, there is a President of the United States still in office and a Party – the Republican one – who are asking to shed light on alleged fraud, with related legal battles whose outcome is far from obvious, the secretary of the League simply wished that clarity would be made. Nothing more. Moreover, anomalous episodes have been reported by some American media such as The Federalist O RealClearPolitics, among others. In particular, Frank Miele on RealClearPolitics claims that “various irregularities have been reported in five major cities, all located in strategic states, and in particular in Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Las Vegas “. Evidently, for the British newspaper, the mere fact of asking questions or hoping that any legitimate doubt about what happened in the USA will be dispelled, regardless of whether there has been fraud or not, or in any case irregularities, represents a “conspiracy theory “. Donald Trump’s allegations, for some media, should not even be scrutinized.
Moreover, if we want to be honest, the use of the word “cheerleader” in such a derogatory tone, is it not a little “sexist”? Of course not, after all we are talking about Trump and Salvini, and therefore everything is allowed, even ignoring the aesthetic code of the prevailing politically correct.
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