Abascal, Wild and the 'cowardly far-right'

Vox feeds on victimhood, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that, after two and a half hours of Santiago Abascal's intervention on La 1 in front of a presenter who was not up to the task, he still has the stomach to complain because they cut forty minutes. The fact that the party issues this outlandish statement can only be explained by a double intention: to continue paving the way to purge Televisión Española when it is convenient and, above all, to justify his fleeing from Jordi Wild, with whom he had signed a commitment to be interviewed without prior questions. Despite the moments of obvious discomfort –reflected in the telling rings under his armpits–, Vox managed to have its candidate come out victorious from that incursion into enemy territory thanks to having an interviewer who tried to make up for the lack of data with a dialectic as nervous as it was stumbling. But Wild promised to have a couple of people dedicated to verifying the accuracy of the statements made. And here, alas, is where the trouble lies.

In view of the statement, the youtuber has rushed to recall that the contract already made it clear that the interview would be broadcast in full and offers to draft a new text where it is even clearer that there will be no cuts. Where has the brave Abascal, reincarnation of El Cid Campeador, gone? Perhaps he is negotiating to obtain more advantageous conditions and then we will discover if Wild is firmer than Broncano. If that is not the case, all the momentum gained on Monday will begin to wane. YouTube is not, for the moment, a platform that has as wide a penetration as television. But it is where there is a crucial audience for the far-right. The voters who have believed the narrative of the far-right's bravery may begin to sniff out that, under the inflated vest, the leader of Vox is a poor, timid devil who cannot withstand a single fact.