Sanna Marin, is anyone really getting scandalized by the videos?

There’s more. It is not just a gender issue but also generational. Society changes, with it the protagonists of politics and their habits. Certainly in Italy a thirty-year-old prime minister is already in herself a ‘sci-fi image, the counter-proof is the social enthusiasm that Marin provoked for example on the occasion of his recent visit to Italy or always in that of the festival in which he participated with an outfit that is (or can be, everyone decides for himself) that of a 36-year-old on leave. All the limits and obstacles of our political-generational evolution unfortunately they are locked in those fan hysteria, which look at a young, spontaneous and progressive woman in an important position as an exotic fact, worse than an impossible mirage in one’s own home.

Not surprisingly i young politiciansin Italy, they were often forced to dressing up “as old”to behave, talk, dress and do things in a reassuring way for an elderly electorate (or rather conservative even if young), assuming, among other things, that of his peers for lost. Look at one of Giorgia Meloni’s latest videos, because she falls into that vein. As Chiara Alessi commented on Twitter, “think that being immortalized in front of grandma’s shelf, with terracotta angels, Lladró figurines, childhood photos with the gnome, branded incense holders, silver frames, is a casual thing”Is obviously naive. For this reason, in addition to a gender problem in the reactions to Marin’s carefree fun, there is also and above all the unresolved problem of a generational turnover which never really and completely happens. The 100 days of the Renzi government, appointed premier at 39, constituted an optical illusion soon denied by the protagonist himself, in the calculations and political choices worthy of the First Republic. A swampy stalemate that blocks any minimal evolution in the way we look at the political class even in reporting the news: always to form, forcibly nailed to prejudices of all kinds, and much little to the substance.