maybe they shouldn't

The Italians are calling the election for Giorgia Meloni and her coalition of right-wing parties. For the first time in a long time, the Italian national assembly with be dominated by conservatives, which has the EU ominously warning that Italy had better not try anything "undemocratic"—ironic coming from an organization with so many unelected officials. Meanwhile, The Liberty Daily has an article up: "Every Republican Should Hear New Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s Message and Make It Their Platform." The "message" in question comes from a recent speech by Meloni. Here's the crucial excerpt:

Yes to natural families, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology, yes to the culture of life, no to the abyss of death, no to the violence of Islam, yes to safer borders, no to mass immigration, yes to work for our people.

I can agree with some of this message, but other parts of it give me the creeps. Let's go down the list, shall we? 

Natural families: as opposed to what? Adoptive families? What counts as unnatural?

The LGBT lobby: to the extent that the lobby might in any way try to enforce something like a grooming agenda on the larger populace, OK, when I vote no, too. To the extent that "the LGBT lobby" is composed of marginalized people who are merely fighting for their right to be treated as normal folks, I can't get behind this.

Sexual identity: if we're talking about recognizing XX-chromosome people as women and XY-chromosome people as men, without there being an ever-changing constellation of pronouns, well, my heart tends toward Occam's Razor, so I'd appreciate some simplification. At the same time, since I see sex and gender as separate realities and separate issues, I'm OK with, for example, calling a drag queen "she" as a label for a gender role. Things get dicier when people want to force me to use bizarre, made-up pronouns like zyr, or to use they in the singular. My tolerance of linguistic bending and twisting can go only so far.

Gender ideology: I'm probably okay with this if we're talking about other people forcing me to confirm their self-image and getting offended when I either refuse to do so or make a simple mistake (e.g., misgendering). As they say: forced speech isn't free speech.

Culture of life: I don't even know what this means. Is it a reference to the pro-life, anti-abortion stance? If so, then I'm on the fence as I haven't thought the issue through thoroughly. Is "culture of life" simply a libertarian affirmation of personal choice and the freedom to do whatever as long as one isn't hurting anyone else? If so, I can get behind that.

Abyss of death: Again, whafuck? Is this a reference to abortion? Gun violence? What?

Violence of Islam: I'll give a big yes to this one. While there are undoubtedly many peaceful and peace-loving Muslims out there, along with plenty of Muslims who do make an effort to integrate into the larger pluralistic community, the fact remains that international terrorism is still pretty much a 100% Muslim phenomenon. Islam needs to deal with this problem and learn how to play better with others.

Safer borders: yup. Total agreement here. Italy is lucky to be mostly surrounded by water and to have countries like Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia dominating its northern frontier. France, not so much.

Mass immigration: again, total agreement.

Work for our people: this sounds consistent with Trump's America First attitude. For Trump, this is a holdover of 90s-Democrat thinking; it's the Republicans who have long been the globalists, always looking for cheap labor overseas or across a border. (Of course, "woke" leftie companies like Apple seem to have no problem recruiting what is effectively slave labor in places like China, so this isn't just a rightie-globalist thing.)

All in all, I can get behind some of what Meloni is talking about. Personally, I would drop the conservative obsession with sexual reproduction and orientation, although I'd want to keep minority ideologies, like LGBT, from dominating the public discourse. LGBT views are way overrepresented as things stand. The final four planks of Meloni's speech, though, would be front and center for me: a strong response to Islamic encroachment, strong borders, limited immigration (allowing in only those who would be of benefit to our country—not the stupid, lazy, shiftless, or America-hating), and nationalist priorities when it comes to work.

So Meloni's speech is a mixed bag to me, and if Republicans want to rope in a wider set of voters, they need to get over their obsession with sex and focus on winning issues like those mentioned in the previous paragraph.