For the reformist sectors of the Franco regime, the monarchy established by General Franco was a red line that could not be crossed. Regardless of popular will, the king was an indisputable institution, guaranteeing the continuity of the system and its servants, and also allowing for a controlled transition. A referendum on the form of government was impossible, but not only that: everything that represented the image, value, and symbol of the Republic, such as the tricolor flag, was persecuted for several years. The struggle continued beyond the approval of the 1978 Constitution, beyond the years of institutional and political transition.

Trump has installed at the top of power, and of international relations, what we can call anti-democratic brother-in-lawism, an anti-political protuberance—calling it an ideology would be an exaggeration: all this talk of libertarian capitalism is sheer stupidity—consisting of identifying all the ills of Western society in the supposed ineffectiveness of the rule of law, with its fussy balance of power, caricatured by lazy and corrupt high-ranking officials who live off the public purse. The solution, typical of what the classic supposedly well-informed brother-in-law would say after dinner, is to purge this entire elitist caste and govern without compassionate qualms, with authority. That is, authoritarianly. With a leader who speaks clearly and acts forcefully. Who governs with the people in mind, a us perfectly ultra-nationalist and exclusive towards the others, the profiteers, the enemies (from outside and inside).