Save Spain, starting with Ceuta

Aznar's visit to Ceuta kicked off the "serious" offensive of the Spanish right. We have seen everything from the armada captained by Marcos de Quinto —manual in hand—, to the demonstrations on Wednesday throughout Spain —with people shouting racist proclamations and slogans against a president whom they call a son of a bitch—, passing through the burning of an immigrant camp and the lightning appearance of a police report —via a leak to El Español, from the Villarejo of journalism, Pedro J. Ramírez— that leaves Marlaska and Sánchez at the mercy of the wolves. And we shall continue. Power always has an aesthetic and a moral environment, and in these last days of August and early September we have had a very enlightening preview of what the aesthetic and moral environment of the right called to govern Spain soon are, if it is not prevented —it is the only possibility that remains— by Feijóo's ineptitude. They are based on the usurpation of the fundamental mechanisms of democracy —such as the right to demonstrate— to unload an avalanche of irrational slogans, unbridled hatreds, misinformation, and intoxications that occupy the entire space of public debate.In the case of Ceuta, all of this is naturally fueled by the incomprehensible exculpatory treatment that the government of Spain gives to that of Morocco. Since it is incomprehensible—or one needs great acuity, let us say it again, to understand that the entry of more than seventy thousand people in two days through a border crossing is not possible without a certain police negligence on the part of Morocco—, this desperate will to exculpate Morocco from the situation fuels all kinds of conjectures: the latest—from outlets of diverse ideological signs, such as Público and El Confidencial—suggest that there could be blackmail by the authoritarian Alaouite monarchy against Pedro Sánchez, which might have some type of relationship with the Pegasus espionage. Maybe yes or maybe no. But there is one thing that is certain, and that is that the right-wing international exists. It is not some paranoia of a psychotic president, as is said and repeated about Pedro Sánchez from the circles of the PP and Vox—or, directly, from these same parties.The right-wing international exists and knows that bringing down the government of Spain means shaking Europe. Slavoj Žižek has lately preferred Instagram to philosophy, but, even so, he has summarized it well: the world, now, is divided between American barbarism (including Israeli barbarism), Russian barbarism, and a kind of soft fascism that maintains civil liberties in appearance, but which brings to power strong nationalism or ultranationalism, which means corruption and democratic regression. In the midst of all this, Europe —the European Union— remains the last bastion of liberal democracy. The goal of them all, indeed, is to bring it down. And, often, this right-wing international counts on the help of a certain Eurosceptic or anti-European left that ends up playing the role —see the article by Ignasi Aragay about the magnificent book by Johann Chapoutot The Irresponsibles (Angle Editorial, in translation by Andreu Gomila)— of the useful idiots of the right.