What 'Abc' goes as far as to do to not say "far-right"

We already suspect that certain press has made the phrase “extreme right” an anathema when defining the authoritarian populisms that plague Europe, because this leads us to assume that this uncomfortable but mathematically essential phenomenon also occurs in Spain when considering a governmental alternative to Sánchez and his partners. But the correspondent in Paris ofAbc Juan Pedro Quiñonero has shown to what extent they are willing to maintain this game of Taboo and has apparently paid for it with his job. A veteran of the European press in the French capital, where he arrived in the autumn of 1983, he recently wrote the book "From the Europe of Freedoms to the Europe of the Extreme Rights". When he asked his newspaper's director to present the volume, problems began. He declines to do so. And a week later, as he recounts, he finds himself at a lunch where he is told that the director had asked the International section to avoid the term extreme right as much as possible. Better, for example, “hard right”, or other similar contortions, if there is no other choice. He argues that perhaps Meloni escapes the classical definition, but that, for decades, Le Pen has been unreservedly considered extreme right in France. Another eight days pass and he is notified that the company has decided to dispense with his services. It is only necessary to connect the dots.

From time to time, voices appear with the sonority that there are no longer left or right, or that what we are experiencing and fascism are two completely different phenomena, as if the present could not be the embodiment of the same principles of the past, even if they are adapted to the current moment. Words still matter, fortunately. And naming them, or putting them on the cover of a book, should not be an act of bravery. But it is.