The caliphate they carry hanging

Jordi Aragonès, who is the candidate for mayor of Barcelona of the winning party of the CEO, the far-right Catalan Alliance, gave an interview a few days ago to the newspaper Abc, for the saying that those who do not gather do not resemble each other.The headline chosen by the newspaper founded by Torcuato Luca de Tena made an impact on social media: “We must not confront Catalans and Castilians, the common enemy is the caliphate”. The rest of the interview dealt with the proposals of Sílvia Orriols' party for the Catalan capital. Housing? Deregulation of the market and construction in abundance. Maragall or Pujol? Noucentisme, Catalonia city, order, discipline, daily mass and going to bed with the maids (this was not said in the interview, but it was inherent in the candidate's discourse). The interview also revealed that AC leaders have as much intention of leading Catalonia to independence as of sticking their fingers into an electrical socket. Independence is, for them, the carrot to attract unwary voters, an addition stuck to the front of the trumpist baseball cap. They coat it, the carrot, with an ethnicist stucco that does not make it more viable, but rather more toxic.In its ideological aspect (besides being a candidate for Barcelona, Jordi Aragonès says he is the party's ideologue), Aliança Catalana recovers – it's no news – a kind of petty-bourgeois fascism, what we could call a scared fascism. They are not proper fascists: they are little fascist shit, with intellectualist pretensions and the mental horizon of a village pious woman. They are the arrival station of a long itinerary of degradation that separatism has inflicted upon itself during almost ten years of giving rope to phantoms who impart lessons of resentful and mediocre patriotism. The leaders of AC aspire to play in the league of low or not so low intensity fascism, the kind that is starting to be strong enough in Europe (with figures like Meloni in Italy, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla in Germany, or Marine Le Pen in France) to impose an aberration like the PEMA – the European Pact on Migration and Asylum, in force since June 12th – to send illegal immigrants to detention camps in non-EU countries. The unifying enemy cannot be Spain, precisely because it is a European and Catholic country, because they expect it to soon be governed by their Spanish counterparts (Vox and PP), and because, lo and behold, Catalonia continues to be part of it and they will certainly need to do some business there. The unifying enemy, therefore, will be the usual one: the poor. Among the poor, the immigrant. Among immigrants, the Moroccan, the Muslim, the Moor. The caliphate, which is secretly preparing the substitution of Catalans, another toxic carrot that appeals to fear and human misery, smeared with disinformation and aporophobia. In this, AC truly represents the old fascism of all time: racism, supremacism, the pointing out of the weak as an enemy and as a threat. It is objectively unpleasant to have to see this bad weed reborn. When the great substitution begins, let them be substituted first.