With Sánchez, the worse the better. I don’t believe a single word of his tearful epistle last week or of the staging staged to disguise his shame. But I fear that there are many voters of the cheesy international who buy his speech and … even the gesture of conjugal love. Our culture reeks of sentimentality and our politicians, aware of the most widespread weaknesses, exploit them like demagogues.
As long as you don’t give explanations for the family’s suspicious activities, anything goes, even feigning anger. Paraphrasing Pessoa, the politician is a faker who even fakes the pain he really feels. And even more so if he is an accomplished comedian like Sánchez, capable of feeling false damage. In short, it is as if the President, with his victimist representation, was demanding that we allow him to commit crimes with impunity. Sultry.
Apparently, the greatest virtue of a politician is to deeply love his wife. And his daughters and his dog, I imagine. In an ideal world where the main virtue is love, the worst vice is hate, and Sánchez has plenty of this ideological poison. It is not the bile of the ultras, nor the holy water of the right, it is the lethal neurotoxin that secretes its sectarian vision of democracy and Spanish life. With his totalitarian gesture of suspending time to think about the emptiness of political existence, Mr. President is guilty of dragging us into the mud and fandango of militant Third Worldism.
The populist turn was inevitable. So many years of collusion with the banana republics of Macondo and surrounding areas have ended up contaminating the ideas of the socialist leader and his party accomplices. Let’s see if the country’s sanchista project consists, in the end, in allying itself with the national periphery and with that global periphery made up of multicultural dictatorships. In Europe they should pay more attention to the geopolitical shift at the southern tip of the continent. Maybe the Pegasus case is the palpitating issue that has put everything in check and made the board shake. We cannot rule out anything.
After this Monday’s ridiculous harangue, I deduce that Sánchez will not miss the opportunity to expand his strategy of ubiquitous power. The coup d’état in progress, in the lexicon of the Sanchista utopia, is called staying in the Government at all costs, no matter who falls and no matter what, with more force than ever. There is no going back. All-out war against critical media and rebellious judges. Country cartoon.
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