Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the Future of the West - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Giorgia Meloni , Italy 's first female prime minister, delivered a message to the president of the United States last week .

The future of the American project is bound up with the future of Western civilization, says Frida Ghitis .

Ghitis: Meloni understands what lies at the core of the cultural legacy of the West — and the American political order.

She is the most articulate defender of European civilization, Ghitis writes in her autobiography.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni 's tough stance on illegal immigration is called xenophobic.

Her defense of the traditional family and rejection of the transgender movement is denounced as a revival of fascism.

For Meloni , brave but ordinary people — not abstract global institutions — will determine the direction of Western civilization.