After the armistice Gorresio had very briefly returned to work on Il Popolo di Roma, until it was suppressed, compromised, in the eyes of the new rulers, by the extent of its association with the Mussolini governments. By the end of the war in Europe, two of his brothers had disappeared, presumed killed, fighting for the Germans on the Russian front. Gorresio now launched himself on a "Cursus honorum" for which he was amply qualified. With a return to democratic government, his own political philosophy became more visible. He was never a communist, but nor could he ever be taken for an Italian "Christian Democrat". Joining a political party could have compromised his independence as a journalist, and it was not something that he ever did, but his attitudes tended to align with those of the liberal left, or with the social democracy that was now emerging or returning as a major political force elsewhere in western Europe. With the benefit of hindsight it is possible to see Gorresio as part of a centre-left "third force" which began to define itself in the aftermath of war, and during the 1950s acquired something of an "ethical" role with a growing appeal to the more intellectually inclined elements of public opinion. Within Italy's newly revived media establishment, other representatives of this tendency, broadly defined, included friends and colleagues such as Mario Pannunzio, Arrigo Benedetti, Ennio Flaiano and Eugenio Scalfari. A number of new mass-circulation loosely liberal-leaning magazines and newspapers were launched or re-launched for the post-democratic age, among them L'Europeo, Il Mondo and La Stampa. Vittorio Gorresio became a regular contributor to each of them.