Many Italians view Matteo Salvini as a likely future prime minister.
ROME — A month ago, four friends put out a call on social media for a protest against far-right populism in their city of Bologna. They were hoping the event might draw 6,000 people. Instead, it drew twice that, with everybody packed into the city's central piazza like sardines.
But while the Sardines have harnessed a measure of the grass-roots frustration common in so many global political protests this year, they are alone in one respect: The target of their ire is not the people technically in power, but rather the opposition.The emergence of such a group would be possible only in the off-kilter world of Italian politics, where two languishing parties are running the country while holding little claim to the nation’s political energy.
The Sardines have broken through, in part, because they so clearly stand for one thing: opposing Salvini. They are not a political party — not yet, at least. They have become, instead, a gathering point for people who were turned off by politics, even as they worried about how a Trump-like politician might be remaking the country.
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