Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 2.

Hello, America.

It's the second hour of all three hours of the Eric Erickson Show nationwide from Atlanta, Georgia.

The full number is 877-97-9-373-7-4-25.

I should tell you, by the way, if you happen to also listen to Ben Shapiro in the evenings

somewhere in the nation, you're going to hear me filling in for him today and tomorrow

for Rosh Hashanah.

He is out celebrating and enjoying

his time with his family and friends. They asked if I would step behind the mic for him, was happy

to do it. We'll be recovering a lot of this stuff from these hours. Now, I want to move to what

happened in Italy.

It's kind of important.

The Italians are headed towards their first female prime minister.

What's notable here in particular is the media reaction internationally to it. Georgian Maloney is the head of a party and in full fairness, honesty and disclosure,

this party does trace its origins to the post-World War II fascist movement after Mussolini was deposed.

It's true.

The media has used that as a hook to suggest that this woman is somehow fascist for her views.

Listen to the subtlety in the NPR retelling of what happened.

The coalition led by far-right leader, Georgia Maloney,

won the most votes in elections held Sunday,

and appears set to form Italy's first far-right government since World War II.

Provisional results show.

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