Demolition man

Il premier Matteo Renzi, la sua visione e la sua politica raccontati dal New Yorker.

Italians who admire Matteo Renzi call him "our best hope." More skeptical Italians say, "Well, maybe our only hope." The Western press hedges its bets with "brash" but "confident." And his enemies use the term il rottamatore, the demolition man. Renzi agrees with his enemies. "I'm the scrapper," he told me. "I'm cleaning up the swamp."