American politics may be looking more like Italian politics. That isn’t necessarily a good thing for bilateral relations.
While the U.S. still has only two major parties, the strain of the divide between them makes consensus governing from the center increasingly difficult. That condition defines Italian politics with it multiplicity of parties pulling the peninsula in different directions. Recent municipal elections revealed more fracturing, with ambivalent results for Americans looking for a stronger partner in Southern Europe.
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