RE: Italy - The new law against "Fake News".
Well, being Italian I have seen this "Trump" already. Being Honest, Trump looks like a fake chinese copy of Berlusconi.
What happens is this kind of phony idiots are trying to apply their imaginary policy, fitting an imaginary world. When it won't work at all, they start saying:
- The press is guilt, because it spreads pessimism.
- There are hidden powers preventing me to succeed.
- I do not have enough power to really drive the country. (not like a company, at least).
- Communist/Aliens/Lesbians are plotting to make me fail.
- Constitution was written by soviet, terrorist or worst, like vegans.
- Rules are evil, because I hated when mom was slapping me.
- The reason people is not happy has nothing to do with economy, is all about boobs.
of course, the population is terrorized to have this guy in the button room, capable to take important decisions. But, after a while, the people will realize that decisions are NOT taken by the government, so that, having a showman in charge is almost funny, and mostly harmless.
Politics is more or less understated: the government has a very little power. And people like Berlusconi or Trump will help the people to realize that, there is no such a thing like "the government".
I actually agree with you; Politicians are mostly the spokespeople. And this is for sure the case in the USA, more than maybe in the Netherlands...although in Netherlands also corporates and others are determining what really will happen. Luckily we have a multi party system with at least 2 parties in government and sometimes even 3 or 4, which makes even the spokespeople somewhat 'in the middle' to be able to form a government.
When you are in democracy , the problem is that you need consensus.
"Need consensus" means, if you "decide" to do "A", corporations, unions, parties, and more, must enforce it. Without consensus, any democracy cannot work.
This kind of people like BErlusconi and Trump are coming from companies, where they don't need consensus, and things are happening just because the CEO said that.
So what they will do is to be in charge, start doing laws or executive order, and expect the country will enforce the new policy, like it would happen in a company.
Unfortunately, this is not working for countries. As a result, all of their policies will fail. So they will start to react as they did in companies, like "fire this guy! fire that guy!" and they will realize that no, the government cannot fire unions, cannot fire corporations, cannot fire parties.
Is just a matter of time, and Trump realize that politic is much more complex than business.... and this is why he isn't good enough for that. He may only achieve business, but politics is too hard for him.
Business < politics.