Jul 19, 2024 · Their lives are, they realize, interconnected. Vance’s love of Lord of the Rings is of a piece with rightward nationalists abroad. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni used to cosplay as a hobbit.

Jul 16, 2024 · Even far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni couldn’t escape Vance’s wrath. “Meloni’s victory in Italy was very much a rejection of the immigration policies in Brussels.

In speeches by J. D. Vance, Tucker Carlson, Viktor Orbán, and Giorgia Meloni, journalists look for ways to understand the “New Right,” which claims to reject the economic and foreign policy dogmas of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

Aug 12, 2024 · Vance isn’t the only one with a love of “The Lord of the Rings.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been steeped in Tolkien’s literature from a young age and has also earned the ire of Politico and NYT for her conservative take on the goings-on of Middle-Earth.

Sep 17, 2022 · When a coalition led by Mussolini fangirl Giorgia Meloni won the Italian election a few days ago and placed her on the path to becoming that nation’s first fascist-esque prime minister since Il...

Aug 29, 2024 · Politicians in Europe (populist) and the United States (MAGA) including Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, have said that “The Lord of the Rings” reflects their ideology.

Jul 16, 2024 · On Italy Even far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni couldn’t escape Vance’s wrath. “Meloni’s victory in Italy was very much a rejection of the immigration policies in Brussels. And yet, she’s been a complete catastrophe when it comes to actually reducing migration to Italy,” Vance said in an interview in February.

Jul 16, 2024 · Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she was "following with apprehension" updates from the scene. Trump's selection Monday of Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his vice presidential pick...

Oct 3, 2022 · The Italian elections produced a victory for hard-right candidate Giorgia Meloni, whose party has its roots in post-Mussolini fascist politics.

In the 1970s the Italian right revitalized itself at “ Hobbit camps,” a formative experience in the life of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who attended one of the camps as a teenager. Far-right and extremist groups in many other countries also revere Tolkien.