Trasformismo was the method of making a flexible centrist coalition of government which isolated the extremes of the political left and the political right in Italian politics after the Italian unification and before the rise of Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascism. 

This is precisely what we're seeing happening again in many western countries where extremism is defined as a deviation from the centre. History tends to rhyme as the saying goes.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trasformismo