Ayuso wins the game against the cartoonists of 'El Mundo'

Cartoonists have papal bulls and can disagree with the official lines of their newspapers: a buffoon's privilege. But everything has a limit, and Isabel Díaz Ayuso has managed to make the two friendly colonial flies who had signed as Gallego&Rey for 29 years finally spill their ink, as seen in her latest cartoon in The World, which will also be the last, and have drawn the black trail of their steps towards an uncertain destiny. Nominally, they are leaving of their own free will because the distance from the newspaper's corpus was becoming unbearable and threatened to separate them in a cruel split. But Gallego admitted that they knew the newspaper was already putting on the boot with which to stamp its foot on their rear. Better to leave with dignity: the one they always had with cartoons that mocked all corners of the political spectrum. They made me think of Toni Batllori: you read the political chronicle of The Vanguard and then his cartoon would elegantly deconstruct it, explaining what had really happened.

In this case, the leadership He hasn't had to do anything, because the sycophants who laugh at his jokes also have a sinister flip side: online harassment. Those who loudly demand the freedom to express whatever comes to mind—or whatever organ produces their picturesque thoughts—are the first to act in a pack to silence anyone who doesn't share their views. After all, Trump himself signed an executive order solemnly restoring freedom of expression in the United States as the first act of his term... and then began persecuting journalists and media outlets that didn't give him the thumbs up. It's the same here, but without getting his hands dirty.