It has been no surprise that a president who was able to send people to storm the Capitol so that the electoral college would not declare him the loser of the election is now able to send the marinas against protesters and militarize public order against the will of the governor of California. And if one day he ordered them to shoot, it wouldn't be surprising either, because that's what dictators do: shoot their people. Donald Trump finds his natural habitat in political chaos and civil conflict, and he will waste no opportunity to abuse his power, because that allows him to act as a tough president and, above all, as the necessary leader to stop the unrest that will spread throughout the country and that he himself has provoked with his persecution of immigrants. Remember that Trump's Spanish role model is Vox.
Meanwhile, the president of Madrid, who also reflects on Vox, copies Trump's repression of university protests with fines. Today she walks away from a meeting when she hears people speaking in Basque or Catalan, and tomorrow she attacks the right to demonstrate. Of course, Ayuso has a free hand to take pictures with Milei and do whatever she wants in general, from the moment Feijóo took the shameful photo, publicly embracing Mazón, the person politically responsible for the deaths of 224 people.
I was thinking about this Wednesday morning when I saw a Red Cross ambulance enter the Raval campus of the University of Barcelona. I knew the university entrance exams were stressful, but not that much. Then I heard on TV that, since it was so hot, they had deployed emergency assistance, and that the examinees could enter the classroom with a bottle of water. I hope one day I won't need to use it to wipe tear gas out of my eyes.
