It is not essentially the same party. It is descended from a group of Mussolini supporters formed AFTER the war, AFTER Mussolini died and AFTER his party was banned. After over 75 years, right-wing alliances in Italy have evolved, merged, split and morphed many times. You can explore these things online very easily. She is a nasty piece of work all right but she is operating under constraints that were not there at the end of the war. Her election was undesirable, no doubt about it. She opposes abortion and gay marriage. So do millions of Christians all over Europe and the US. She is not minded to take Italy out of the EU, so she will have to embrace democracy and the rule of law. Totalitarianism of the kind that leads to fascism does not and cannot exist in ruling parties in the EU. That doesn't mean that there can't be bigots, populists and the rest, and there's no room for complacency, but equally there is no room for lazy labels either. She will have to be constructively engaged. That is a bottom line. Context is everything.