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“While we were sleeping, Putin won the Italian election,” the Twitter user Southpaw wrote this morning.

Far-right and anti-Europe parties did very well in that election. It’s still unclear who the new prime minister will be. But Italy’s new government will likely join the list of governments — including those in Hungary, Poland and, yes, the United States — hostile to immigrants and even to democratic values.

“After Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France beat back populist and far-right insurgencies in the past year, Europe had seemed to be enjoying a reprieve from the forces threatening its unity and values,” The Times’s Jason Horowitz writes. “That turned out to be short lived.”