Entry 75 · Book chapter 76
May 31 1944
Post-Fascist Italy's political life fragments into dozens of parties, some espousing bizarre or fringe ideas, reflecting a climate of instability.
Reflections
Postwar political fragmentation and 'respectable insanity'
Surveying Italy's sudden explosion of some sixty political parties, some proposing perpetual-motion machines as national policy, Lewis remarks that this is a season and situation in which insanity has become almost respectable.
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