Mazón outdid himself, and it seemed impossible. He had lowered taxes, built trams, and finished off the separatists. As if all this mattered much to the families of the 229 victims. As if, by the way, the separatists weren't people like him, who have spent their entire lives trying to separate Valencian from Catalan.
Yesterday we heard a dress rehearsal of what Mazón will declare before the judge on the day he appears: that if he didn't take action until 8:30 in the evening, it's because he was a victim of misinformation. But even one of his advisors is recorded before lunch saying that they are worried about the rising waters of the Poio ravine!
But the most significant thing of all was the final flourish with which he tied his political testament: "I address myself to that living parliamentary majority [...], the one that, ultimately, defends freedom." It was inevitable that, sooner or later, Mazón would justify everything in the name of freedom. The same freedom that ruined the Valencian Community and that, according to the Ayuso worldview, turns alert SMS messages into an intrusion on people's free will to go for a drink whenever they please.
That Mazón is the epitome of cynicism and incompetence doesn't mean that everything outside the PP is ethical and efficient. I'm talking about the PSOE. Minister Diana Morant congratulated the victims' associations for the merit of having "taken down" Mazón. Do we have to talk in these medieval baths? The worrying thing about the DANA storm has been to see once again that politics is capable of appropriating whatever is necessary, including the pain caused by 229 deaths, to be right and sink the adversary. Realizing that people don't matter as much as winning elections has been, after the tragedy, the hardest blow.
