Pedro Sánchez's memoir is an anecdote. But it is not always clear what is the accessory and significant, farce and tragedy: it is surprising that the President of the Government signs a contract with a publishing group or that he has found time to finish a book while performing a theoretically demanding position. Regardless of their abilities, the person chosen to give "literary form" to Sánchez's autohagiography is designated to promote the image of Spain abroad shows a disconcerting closeness between the private and the public, and a reckless confusion between interests of the State and narcissistic frivolity.
Something similar happens with more serious cases, such as the discredit of the CIS or the polemic of the rapporteur and the table of parties. To save their budgets, a president without a mandate and with parliamentary weakness accepted part of the framework of defeated Catalan secessionism. It could be presented as a justifiable symbolic concession or a commitment to dialogue. But also as the acceptance of the fallacy that we are in a conflict between Catalonia and Spain, and not in a dispute between Catalans; the recognition that it is a problem that we can not resolve according to the stipulated channels and perhaps not even among us; or the staging of a bilateral relationship.
The debate follows a known mechanism. A botched government announcement causes perplexity and criticism: in the party, in valuable people who believe in the project, in voters and in opinion leaders.
The exaggerated and irresponsible reaction of the PP and Citizens is a lifeline for the Executive, analysts and aspiring spin doctors.
All dissent is attributed to a brutalized right. In an exercise of trumpery transversality, some and others apply a similar formula: euphemism and rationalization to describe the mistakes of the affines; superlatives and moralizing judgment to categorize those of others.
The hullabaloo dilutes the possibility of assessing the initial errors: we do not know how much they matter, nor what confusion helps an extreme right that does not even need to act much.
Nothing ever happens until it happens: we all think that our cause is the only true one and that the scarcity of public conversation is the fault of others, and we trust that the climate of polarization, lexical inflation and hysteria will not break the institutions that we degrade every day
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/02/08/opinion/1549629753_191053.html
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