As the far right expands electorally and occupies (or is expected to occupy) positions of power, it also generates supporters and sympathizers. This is logical, and we can also see it reflected in the mirror of history: a hundred years ago, fascisms also went from being minority and extremist movements to being accepted, supported, and applauded by broad sectors of the population. The same thing is happening now. The most prominent case of whitewashing of a far-right figure in Europe, so far, has been the premier Italian Giorgia Meloni, racist, supremacist, government ally with Salvini's League and declared admirer of Mussolini, but nevertheless applauded by Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission as the promoter of an immigration policy as advanced as closing immigrants in detention centers in Albania. Meloni represents the "reasonable" far right, with whom it's supposedly possible to work and make progress. He's a necessary lifeline for the most immobile political, economic, and financial powers and for followers of MAGAs, MEGAs, and their ilk.
The expansion of the extreme right, far right, fascism, neo-fascism and illiberal options is evident in the number of public voices that go from not talking about it to normalizing it: "After all, it's what citizens vote for," they argue. In Spain, the presence of Vox in the political system was normalized long before it had parliamentary representation, while parties like Bildu, for example, must continue to drag labels as light as terrorists either murderers: Within a significant part of the Spanish political imagination, "radical" is anyone who deviates from the vision of Spain, and the world, of the ultra-nationalist right, which is the one that, as paradoxically as one may wish, marks the centrality.
In Catalonia, there are many voices and platforms preparing the landing strip for the variable sums and geometries that include the Catalan Alliance, and which will likely be numerous after the upcoming municipal and regional elections. These days, the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Netanyahu and his government of religious fanatics and far-right extremists highlights the connecting links between Zionism (as a supremacist project for a state exclusively for Jews), the xenophobic far right that foments hatred of immigrants, and nationalist sectors. They claim to work for the salvation of Catalonia, the Catalan language, traditions, and, if convenient, the entire West. When criticized, they insult and defame, and if they act this way on social media, hidden behind anonymous profiles, it means they also know how to throw stones and hide their hands in other areas. They have followers who whitewash their image in the public eye, including some acquaintances, friends, and former colleagues from the literary world. Four days ago, they used to say (some still repeat it) that the far right is nothing more than a scarecrow for the left to win the vote of fear.
