President Trump met with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte today. He noted that Conte was also an outsider, elected in part to crack down on immigration. Conte is seen as a figurehead for the two right wing parties that won the last parliamentary elections: the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement and the far right League Party. Theirs is the first populist government to take power in Western Europe.
Similarities between Italy's new government and Donald Trump
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- Rachel Donadio - reporter at The Atlantic covering politics and culture across Europe - @racheldonadio