They say that Francisco Franco He didn’t like ‘El Verdugo’ (1963), despite the fact that more than a movie it is another Berlanga masterpiece. And he said that its director was not a communist, but something worse: a bad spanish. The anecdote is well known and coined a phrase quite typical in extreme right-wing circles, regardless of the favorite country. Enemies of Spain, Catalonia, Germany, Italy and more recently from Turkey, Hungary, Poland or Russia … Even from the US, during Trump’s disastrous period. The list of rulers and supporters who are speaking of their rivals as ‘enemies of the country’ is beginning to be alarming. And they all have in common the aforementioned ideology, disguised under various rubrics but which tends to hyper-leadership, to unique thinking, to the concentration of all the powers of the State, to the sublimation of the idea of homeland and even to the discourse that trivializes violence to obtain political objectives. Vulgar fascism that most of those sympathizers are not even aware of.
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