Trump Opposition | Video analysis of Veronica Fumanal

I had written the article about the Benidorm Fest and the political implications of the most innocuous festival controversy of recent times. But this past week we have had two episodes that diagnose a very dangerous drift of the right in this country, and especially, not of the entire PP, but of the leadership of the popular of Genoa, who are the ones who are executing a strategy of erosion of leftist governments through frontal attack and discrediting of the institutions they represent.

The attack on the plenary session of the Lorca city council (Murcia), the contrary vote of the UPN deputies behind the scenes in the purest Tamayo style, the manipulation of the macro-farms, the ‘fake’ of European funds and the purchase of the Ciudadanos deputies and Vox to frustrate the motion of censure in Murcia have a common denominator: the squandering of the prestige of institutions, the mockery of democratic processes and the discredit of those who right now hold the majorities in those institutions, progressive governments. Pablo Casado and Teodoro García Egea, in order to obtain the power of the institutions, are willing to put an end to them.

Now the goal is Meritxell Batet, but not her, who cares rather little, but the institution she represents, the third of the State. He defames that something remains and so, accusing her of fraud and prevarication, Casado and Teodoro are going to play conspiracy theory for the remainder of the term. They seem to ignore that this accusation charges against all the public servants who work in the Chamber so that the law and procedures prevail, the same ones that did not allow the erroneous votes of Rajoy or Sánchez to be repeated because they were human errors. The elephant of the rigging is already planning on the Government and Congress. Let’s be honest, they have achieved their goal and their media terminals do not give them a single but.

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This strategy of defamation and delegitimization of the institutions hides the lack of an alternative project that Aznar himself verbalized in the Castilla y León campaign. Married is not an alternative because he does not have one, the team that surrounds him is an expert in tricks and shenanigans, set in motion in the quagmire of the Murcia region, and now also in Navarra, because the betrayal of the two deputies who hid their refusal upon validation he will have his reward, in true Toni Cantó style. The theory of the illegitimate government under permanent suspicion cannot be the only claim of a party that aspires to govern the country, especially when that party is the only one that has broken the anti-turncoat pact to win wills that it did not get at the polls.

Democracies exist because they have a popular consensus that legitimizes them, their actors protect them and a clear and understandable legal structure regulates them. At the moment that one of the main actors delegitimizes their operation and uses their rules to go against them, we are placing them on the edge of the precipice. In the same way that the independence movement tried to act against the State, dismissing it and there is a part of the population that will find it difficult, if one day it is achieved, to trust their institutions again. The Popular Party is doing exactly the same thing: instead of ‘Madrid steals from us’ it is ‘The Government/Congress steals from us’. And what happens when citizens believe that the institutions are deceiving them? Well, the outrage turns into an anti-democratic outburst that can remain an angry tweet or can be violently channeled towards politicians and institutions, such as the episodes of the Capitol or Lorca’s assault.

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When a vote is lost, even by one vote, the criterion of the democratic majority must be accepted. To question the result is to question democracy, the institutions that compose it and its rules. It is not necessary to destroy the institutions to come to power or to win the adversary. The US continues to pay the bills for Trumpism in government. Spain is going to pay dearly for Trumpism to train from the opposition.