Italian Politics - Is Milani a Gender Washer?

Milani can be an example of what political scientists call gender washing when female politicians adopt a non-threatening image to blunt the force of their extremism. She poses as like a defender of women, even though her party has rolled back women's rights. At the same time attempts by the main center left rivals to make the election about this kind of ghost of Fascism spreading through Milani have proved unsuccessful. Voters by and large did not buy the narrative that the left was trying to push that Milani was this reincarnation of Fascism.