Carlo Calenda, where is the innovative minister of Industry 4.0 who now changes his mind every quarter of an hour?

After Romano Prodi e Pierluigi Bersani, the leader of Action, Carlo Calenda he was certainly the most innovative Minister of Industry of the last half century. His name will forever be linked to Industry 4.0, the plan launched under the Renzi and Gentiloni governments, which represents the major innovation in industrial policy, not only in Italy, in recent years. But where is that brave man of government? Today Calenda seems a completely different person, also different from the one who, in the last municipal elections, made secular and democratic Rome dream after the indecorous experience of the grillina mayor Virginia Rages. Driving by Action, Calenda now appears as a capricious and very fickle political leader. Someone who changes his mind all the time. He had made an electoral pact with the Pd by Enrico Letta and tore it up in the space of one morning. He had formed an alliance with the leader of Italy Viva, Matteo Renzi, in view of a single party and sabotaged it when the congress of the two political formations approached and he understood that perhaps he would have lost it. He had subscribed to a program that provided for the prime ministership with direct elections on the model of the mayor of Italy and he changed his mind about direct elections. Then he joined Pd e Five stars claiming the minimum wage by law without realizing that the proposal takes away room for union bargaining and above all rests on a public fund which, to finance the minimum wage, implies the increase in taxes for all citizens, including workers. In recent times he hasn't got one right and hasn't missed an opportunity to put his fingers in Renzi's eyes. Finally, the holidays in sparkling Capalbio did not prevent him from adopting a moralistic attitude, somewhat Komeinist, when he reproached three exponents of Italia Viva for having gone to dinner with the controversial minister Santanché at the Twiga, the notorious restaurant of Briatore and of Santanchè herself in Forte dei Marmi. Who knows what plots they will have concocted against him, Calenda must have wondered angrily, forgetting that sometimes silence is golden. Without a proportional electoral law it is unlikely that the Third Pole takes off and Renzi certainly has his responsibilities in the failure of the project, but the leader of IV makes politics, that of Action makes only poisonous jokes and in the meantime he has shattered the alliance between the two groups in the center who are now on the verge of divorce even at the parliamentary level. But we also have to ask ourselves if today the valiant champion of Industry 4.0 is still a liberal politician or if instead, obsessed by Renzi's shadow, he looks more and more like a slightly outdated grillino. Calenda risks going down in history as the pickaxe of the Third Pole but also of himself and it's a real shame.