Real punches

The offer of punches to the mouth is quite saturated. Society is full of them, real and metaphorical, in the streets and online, so we are already served and don't need more. If we talk about political combat, a punch is better than arguments because you are left rested (though sore), but arguments have the advantage of being renewable: everyone can repeat them everywhere and, in these times —and to sustain the fight in defense of democracy—, values are more useful than impulses.

Even so, that Jair Domínguez has had to go to trial for saying on the radio that "fascism" and "Nazis" are fought with a "punch to the mouth" is already a desire to prosecute someone. First, because the phrase is perfectly covered by freedom of expression. And secondly, because if Vox feels alluded to, there are no further questions, Your Honor.

The extreme right is a danger to coexistence and the democratic system. As far as Catalonia is concerned, the Spanish extreme right represents an explicit threat to the language, culture, and political power of the country, however subordinate it may be to the State's order. These punches have indeed not been metaphorical, precisely. This is without forgetting the prevalence of ultra ideology in the apparatus of a State that, half a century after the dictator's death, has still not managed to dissolve the Francisco Franco Foundation.

With punches to the mouth we can end up without teeth, but by not defending what we are, we can end up without a country. If we are to find metaphors, this is what remains of the forceful phrase that, oh surprise, went to trial this morning.