Meloni may be proved right on Sunday, when she is expected to be the top vote-getter in Italian elections, a breakthrough far-right parties in Europe have anticipated for decades. But none of that matters now, she insisted in an interview this month, because Italians do not care. “Italians don’t believe anymore in this garbage,” she said with a shrug. ROME — Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s hard-right leader, resents having to talk about fascism. She has publicly, and in multiple languages, said that the Italian right has “handed fascism over to history for decades now.” She argued that “the problem with fascism...