The Trans-Atlantic Right-Wing: Italy and the United States in comparative perspective

The paper looks at the genesis of the new global Right-Wing since 2016, the year of Donald Trump's populist “big bang” and Brexit (Wodak 2016, Norris and Inglehart, 2019). The paper uses a comparative perspective, starting with the hypothesis that we are facing a new ideological profile that has brought the two sides of the Atlantic closer (Ivaldi and Mazzoleni, 2019), partly due to the victory of “Fratelli d’Italia" in 2022. Not only Trumpism, but also the hybridization of the political discourse of the traditional conservative right with that of the populist right, as well as the emergence of global networks of ideas and think tanks. The paper will highlight (a) wich interpretations have emerged to justify the global dimension of the phenomenon, (b) the specificities of the two cases and what transformations Trumpism and the Meloni phenomenon have respectively imprinted on the ideological profile of the mainstream right, and (c) the elements of continuity and difference between the two cases on both sides of the Atlantic, with a view to a broader research agenda on the transatlantic right.