Sánchez and the narrative of dying while killing

The front pages the day after the election announcement show that this will be a high-sounding campaign, of communicative maximums. “A high-tension 29-N”, headlines El País, and it would be naive not to realize that the newspaper is also playing the same fear card that the cave has been placing on the table again and again for eight years. Meanwhile, the right-wing bench debates whether to consider Sánchez a corpse or a killer. They don't say it in those words, of course, but the subtext, like cotton, does not deceive. And when El Mundo writes, headlining its front page “Last move to survive”, it is evident that it is selling the bear's skin – in this case the dog's, that is, the dog– and that it offers its readers the dream of seeing the annihilation (metaphorical, for the moment) of its public enemy number one. Continuing with the animal semantic field, Sánchez would be the sea bass out of water that shakes pathetically with some final vain gasps. On the other hand, at La Razón they still do not consider him written off and headline “The Moncloa plan: judicial stoppage and campaign of coups”. According to their vision, and so as not to abandon the bestiary, we must see the PSOE leader as a donkey that pathetically kicks out before the frustration of seeing that they make him go down a path he does not want. It is a front page that delves into the idea of a leader who refuses to succumb to alternation and who, in this resistance, is capable of attacking institutional pillars such as the judicial establishment. About the independence of the judges, of course, better to talk about it another day.

All this hostility, I would say, worries the Spanish president little to none. From the zoological catalog of metaphors, I see him as an unpredictable kangaroo that, between hops, can deal you a quick blow that leaves you distracted. Be that as it may, that the media right denounces “coups” is quite touching, after eight years of nagging.