Feijóo and the coyote policy

It seems that the new strategy Feijóo's PP had found to corner the Sanchistas, which consisted of trying to exploit the summer of terrible fires (mainly) in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula to try to toughen up the responsibility for Perrosanxe (Margarita Robles, of Defense) in the Senate. In short. The next day, all talk was of deflation, of the boomerang effect, and applause for the minister from the pro-government crowd. First of all, this is a consequence of behavior the PP is often accused of, but which is also true: its intense tendency to patrimonialize institutions. In other words, to think that the State is theirs, particularly in the places where they have a majority: "their" Senate, "their" Supreme Court, "their" National Court. It's true that the distribution of seats in key bodies, to which both the PP and the PSOE have subscribed since the first day of the exemplary Transition, has reinforced this perception over the years. But at the same time, it's equally true that we must combat the patrimonialization of public property, because it is precisely the main channel through which the entire state's sewer system flows.

Secondly, but not far off, the PP's filibustering with the fires is yet another product of an idea in which there is (again) a point of strategy and another, very large point, of longing confused with reality, that which the pedants call wishful thinkingNamely, the conviction that, one day or another, some misfortune, some natural catastrophe, or some man-made catastrophe must sweep away Pedro Sánchez and his government, so fragile, and bring them down without remedy. The leading opposition party in Spain, and also the leading party in the entire political system, thus engages in a maximalism as dangerous as it is ineffective: profiteering from misfortune. It doesn't matter whether it's COVID, the drought, Ukraine, Venezuela, a massive blackout, the DANA (National Emergency Plan) in Valencia, the fires, or negotiations with Catalan coup plotters, Basque terrorists, and bad Spanish communists (who, from the perspective of Spanish nationalism), The common thread is that, in the face of all these misfortunes, the PP, instead of adopting the role of a constructive opposition that monitors (and points out, when necessary) to contribute to improving the situation, imitates the role of an extremist influencer, who, based on a real fact, smears everything with lies.

The result, so far, has always been the same: despite the notable internal differences, the majority that investigated Pedro Sánchez has retreated in the face of the PP's demagogic attacks. Feijóo is increasingly resembling Road Runner's Coyote, who often ended up crushed under the rock he himself threw down the slope. Even Vox has noticed and is choosing to stay in the background, rubbing its hands in glee at the deterioration of its main adversary, which is not the PSOE but the PP.