Drinks parties with the Russians and scathing criticism of centrist governments could morph into Cold War-esque interference across the Continent
On the remote shoulders of a mountain 50 miles east of Rome, the Trisulti charterhouse stands as a monument to the difficulty of establishing a European version of the Make America Great Again movement.
It was in this 700-year-old Carthusian monastery on Monte Rotonaria that Steve Bannon, the America First ideologue and former chief strategist to President Trump, attempted to set up a “gladiator school” for national-conservative culture warriors from across Europe.
The Academy for the Judeo-Christian West, as it was known, soon got bogged down in legal action and an eviction attempt by the Italian culture ministry.
