Trump "never reads." Not books, not newspapers: "Not even the one-page or half-page notes they send him to prepare him for an interview." He is a complete functional illiterate. He only functions orally. He is a man of action without reflection, audacious, disruptive. Something that, in a chaotic world, far from penalizing him, has made him a political genius. If in 1992 James Carvill, Bill Clinton's advisor, made the phrase "It's the economy, stupid!" famous, now we could paraphrase it like this: "It's stupidity, stupid!" Out with experts, out with wise men, out with history, out with knowledge... Yes to imperative action that provokes stupefaction, fear, insecurity. Yes to the excitation of prejudices and base instincts.

The writer, essayist and also political advisor Giuliano Da Empoli became known a few years ago with his magnificent The magician of the Kremlin (Ediciones 62), a key book for understanding Vladimir Putin's political personality. He has now returned to the essay The hour of the predators, also published by 62, brilliantly and provocatively describes the arrival of a new era of power dominated, he explains, by political and technological "predators." Recently, the French writer of Italian-Swiss origin presented the book in Madrid, where we were able to have a long conversation about the political transformation he describes in his book. Da Empoli arrives for the interview after meeting with Pedro Sánchez; surprised to have appeared on the public agenda of the president whom he says is "interesting." I ask him if he considers him an exception within the European framework.