Silvio’s Deluded Postscript

By FRANK BRUNI
NYT

Rome

The direness of Italy’s financial situation forced him from office, and his country has been teetering on the precipice of default, with the euro on the line and the whole world holding its breath.

But Silvio Berlusconi still doesn’t get it. On Sunday, the deposed prime minister re-emerged in public and reopened that font of self-aggrandizing fantasy otherwise known as his mouth, and what do you suppose came out of it?

Not regret, not remorse and certainly not anything constructive.

Instead, Berlusconi ranted about the Communist menace and how he had long stood — and would forever stand — as a bulwark against it.

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