We live in a world of metastasizing globalizing idiocracy. The Italian language offers the best description: la madre degli scemi e sempre incinta (la madre de los tontos esta siempre embarazada/the mother of the idiots is always pregnant).
As with fascism, Italy, with Berlusconi, pioneered media-driven populist kleptocracy whose core constituency is men in a panic about lost status and manhood. They take the cult-peddling kleptocrat's red pill in a political version of a little blue pill. Berlusconi, Trump and Bolsonaro sell the gendered political viagra of themselves as the only old white guys they know who live like rap stars.