The American comedian and journalist Bill Maher managed to get the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, on his show. I say he managed to get him on because Maher hosts and presents a show where Donald Trump started as a laughable clown and is now the personification of the greatest national catastrophe, and he's no longer funny, only scary. In this situation, what did Maher ask Vance? Only one thing. Fair play on election day: “With Trump, for you there will only be two possible outcomes: either we win or they cheated. This shit has to end. And you or Marco [Rubio; one of the two will succeed Trump in the candidacy] will have to do it. Can you tell me that you will do it, that you will bring the whole country to common ground, at least on this, and that you will recognize the other's victory if you lose?”
What a sad way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence next Saturday. Americans asking a politician something they should never have had to ask, because it would have seemed inconceivable: if he loses, will he admit defeat?
It is a type of deterioration of public life that can no longer be reversed. And in Spain, this is beginning to be the question that will eventually have to be asked, if we listen to the arguments of political impotence that the PP and its crutch Vox have launched regarding the cleanliness of the electoral roll. And it doesn't look good at all: Vance dodged the question and got caught up in the story of the tech companies that helped the Democrats and harmed the Republicans. It's one thing to play brave and let your opponent interview you, and another to forget that Trump was watching the show. And Trump never admits defeat. This is the lesson that his European imitators have learned most quickly.
