Over the weekend, the world remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Even Italy’s Democratic Party joined the celebrations:

The caption read: “If you build walls, we’ll tear them down.” As a friend originally from Italy notes, the delicious irony is that in 1989 the “Democratic” Party was known as the Italian Communist Party.

Decades ago, the left were big on walls of all kinds, including the Berlin Wall, or as East Germany’s Communist masters used to call it, “the anti-fascist protective barrier” (why David Freddoso says “only a useful idiot would accept the term ‘anti-fascist’ at face value.”).