The day that Mbappé discovered what ‘polaco’ means

The other day Feijóo announced that he would build a million apartments thanks to the fact that, with a government of his, there would be “less bureaucracy”, but instead of less bureaucracy, he said “less democracy”. He often does not know how to interpret what he is reading. The other day he said that he would only address the hardworking people and not the freeloaders, and when saying “freeloaders” (“scammers”) he did this. These slips make him meme fodder, and deepen the evidence that the personality of the favorite candidate in the polls to preside over Spain does not measure up, but not because he is often wrong, but because he is a politician from a past era.

And what's more, when it's not the memes, it's the reheated ideas prepared for him by a team as lackluster as he is. Yesterday he presented the “Contract with Spain”. As if that contract thing hasn't been done a thousand times! Well, there are 12 principles, one of which is “to guarantee the teaching of Spanish throughout Spain”, as if it weren't already guaranteed. In reality, it is against teaching in Catalan. What a surprise, right? Man, from the party that has worked hardest to prevent Catalan from being official in the European Parliament, you can only expect proposals like this. It is also funny that he says any indoctrination in classrooms will be eradicated. So, does that mean they won't talk about October 12th, May 2nd, or the '78 Constitution anymore? If they could hear me, they would answer that neither October 12th, nor May 2nd, nor the '78 Constitution are indoctrination, but rather history, and that indoctrination is the Eleventh of September or teaching the lyrics to 'Els segadors'. The PP is boring even in this regard.

Which does not mean we should underestimate the threat. Because a PP-Vox government would have the entire state apparatus behind it. There are too many judges eager to act as schoolteachers in Catalonia. If they govern, the PP and Vox will be the political, visible, executive arm of a deep state capable, for example, of delaying the dismissal of the case against Puigdemont, even though the Constitutional Court and the CJEU have made it clear that nothing opposes the application of the amnesty law.

It is a deep state that connects with old impulses that renew themselves with every generation. This happened on Sunday at the Bernabeu. Mbappé sits on the bench and hears the Madrid fans chanting “he who doesn't jump is a Polaco”. And the team delegate, Chendo, asks him if he knows what polaco means. And when they explain it to him, he, he, he, he chuckles under his breath. This is the contract with Spain, living in a state where we are foreigners.

Then the left comes to ask us to help them stop fascism, as if we hadn't done so in every election. As if fascism were only the work of one party, and not a deep and structural culture.

Good morning.