The pituitary glands are fused from the different humors that emanate from the circles closest to Pedro Sánchez, but democracy has guarantor norms that shield governments from various impulses. In times like these, they may be difficult to reason, but they are there for a reason. That is why I find the constant appeal from the cave to the supposed illegitimacy of the PSOE leader to be dangerous. The latest broadside comes from Abc with an editorial titled “A president against democracy”. Placing him outside of democracy is frankly dangerous, because it invites decisive action, torch and noose. All to the Capitol to restore freedom! Coming from a newspaper that lived through the Civil War, it is even more unsettling. And to further inflame spirits, the front page opens with another headline that fuels the offense: “Sánchez despises justice and Parliament”. The narrative from this trench always has the same blind spot: the inability to seriously analyze why the vast majority of political forces in Congress turn their backs on PP-Vox. Without this consideration, their narrative falls apart: they should explain to their reader that the terrible management of accommodations within the state project by right-wing parties forces the perfidious periphery to have to lean towards the lesser evil, however lame the duck may walk.
In this regard, the approach of El Mundo is a little more rational, which this Thursday headlined: “Sánchez already has a majority of 188 deputies against him after leaving without giving explanations”. There is the obvious trap that the 188 do not want an alternative that goes through Feijóo and ArmillaMan, but at least it frames it in terms of parliamentary majorities and not usurpation of power. We have seen in the United States the consequences of stirring the hornet's nest of illegitimacy, and it is a frankly inadvisable path. Especially in a country with its media landscape.
