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Thanks for your thoughtful input, Luca.

The problem with right/left, liberal/conservative is that they are very broad, very relative labels. I think what Fabrizio might have been hinting at is that many of Berlusconi's policy stances (such as they are) would be center-left to leftist in the US and centrist in most places. Actually, when I said this:
"Nothing about guns and tuition and all of that. You paint things in Texas terms and the context here is Europe."clearly the relative nature of the labels is exactly what I was referencing.

Fabrizio has his own precious way of framing things, which invariably means a dubious comparison to something in the United States.