Everyone is talking about this with emotions on high. Sánchez’s órdago is quickly filling up with commonplaces that divide us, among them the very idea of órdago. He is approaching this matter with the dim lights of immediacy … and surprise, although we are aware of the long consequences that will come. If we look at the immediate effects of the letter of complaint and the president’s days of reflection with his wife, we will see that it is an ordeal with several aspects. It is a total challenge that is thrown at us by someone who knows well that he has built the image of himself repeatedly speaking about the value of resistance, so no one will find it strange that he finally says that he is going to resist (we would see how). It is also a kind of emergency survey on the mobilizing energies of the PSOE. And it is also a bet by Pedro Sánchez for his own political and personal future, at the cost of being tragically exposed to the risk of a possible stage catharsis, on the stages of an anguishing present.
Finally, and therein lies the historical novelty of the thing, it is an emotional and romanticized call that Sánchez wants to make reach beyond the socialist militancy, to the leaders and even the militancy and the electorate of the left to the left of the PSOE, the radicals and the sovereigntists. Pedro Sánchez is asking for care. And he is very aware that this syntagm – the politics of care – is a fetish idea for the new left, feminism and the new social movements.
There will be a before and after for Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE but also for the rest of the political forces. How has that thick and heavy slab that Sánchez has thrown onto the turbulent sea of Spanish politics fallen on the right and left? The surface, as you can see, has been getting more and more curling, at the rate of the hours. If the right increases the tone of the fight, the PSOE and Sumar will regroup in support of Pedro Sánchez.
In a bellicose environment, the voices that resonate the most are not usually the most sensible.
The right responds by using more ‘ad hominem’ diatribes (they seem so hurt by victimhood and lack of maturity). In a bellicose environment, the voices that resonate the most are not usually the most sensible. There will be many people on the right who will feel disoriented and even distressed by the thickness that the discord is acquiring, but undoubtedly the worst of the ultra ground and those who, like Feijóo himself, allow themselves to be carried away by that spiral are heard much more. . They may be few, but they are well established as figures of the cultural war. Few and diverse, but intertwined by the thread of three sociohistorical phobias: those that remain entrenched because they grew thanks to sociological Francoism and nostalgia for the dictatorship, those that occurred after the 11M attacks of 2004 and the subsequent conspiracy theories, and those that were generated with the 15M- Podemos cycle and a crisis in the political system of representation that has not been resolved.
These three phobias of the right come together in the attitude and discourse of those who see politics as a terrain of struggle, hunting or war, those who smell the weakness and blood of the enemy (now Pedro Sánchez), those who say they respond with the same medicine to left-wing protests in public spaces by organizing harassment campaigns in front of the homes of left-wing leaders. However, not everything is explained by one’s own history. In the repertoire of pressure policies of the right and the extreme right, the Trump style and the dedicated prominence of a very important part of the judiciary, ostensibly leaning in favor of the anti-sanchista group, are weighing heavily.
And what turmoil will the launching of Pedro Sánchez be causing into the deep waters of a left divided among itself and at the same time united with him in parliamentary agreements and in the coalition government? It would be idle to reiterate here the list of resignations from Unidas Podemos and Sumar when governing with the same general secretary of the PSOE who would have governed without breaking a sweat with Ciudadanos. Now, Sánchez’s order adds an unforeseen and unwanted obligation: to take care of him. Is it possible that they do such a thing – take care of Sánchez – who in turn have divided themselves when interpreting the politics of care within their ranks, mistreating each other even when the harassment campaigns of right-wing extremists also intensified against them?
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