“Governo dei migliori”: pensiero antidemocratico greco e dibattito politico italiano (2016-2022), [“Rule by the best”: Greek anti-democratic thought and Italian political debate (2016-2022)]

“Rule by the best”: Greek anti-democratic thought and Italian political debate (2016-2022). In the current Italian public debate (2016-2022) concepts and images can be found which are comparable to concepts and images typical of the Greek anti-democratic thought of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.: these are often taken from the classical world explicitly; sometimes we can hypothesize an unconscious reminiscence or a correspondence due to ‘structural’ analogies. This can be seen in the way many commentators portrayed in 2021 the Draghi government and Mario Draghi himself, and, before that, in a 2016 article by Eugenio Scalfari (“Perché difendo l’oligarchia”, la Repubblica), which was part of a debate with Gustavo Zagrelbesky and had wide resonance, also because it was written by a well-known exponent of the “democratic” left.