When a president addresses a country in a moment of general collapse, he must understand that, at that moment, we are all tied to what he says, what he doesn't say, and how he says it. And he must understand who he is addressing.
We come from a global pandemic, we have a war in Europe, we have gone through the DANA of the Valencian Country, the EU has urged us to buy a kit survival, and the Spanish government has just announced it will spend more than 10 billion euros on defense. We are a society whose collective psychology has been eroded since 2020, subjected to all kinds of fake news and self-serving poisoning. We are so easy to defeat, and President Sánchez should appear in the middle of the afternoon, while President Isla eight hours after the blackout begins?
When we're facing an unprecedented crisis, a president must understand that we need to hear a credible explanation that doesn't force us into the always dangerous exercise of reading between the lines. And if he still can't provide an explanation, he must make us feel that everything that depends on the government will be fine and invite us to turn the crisis into a moment of mutual aid, with a mix of practical guidance and collective resolve. And yet, there were no major scenes of chaos (except in that black hole that is Renfe and Adif), partly because we're in the developed world and because the vast majority have half a brain.
But since everything is susceptible to worsening, Feijóo also appears in this article. What authority does he think he has to speak about crisis communication when he has been unable to force Mazón, the negligent manager of a crisis that ended in court, with hundreds of deaths, to resign?
