Leaders like Abascal sentenced Jo Cox to death. The murder of the Labor leader by a member of the British National Front shouting “Britain First” would not have occurred before Brexit and the toxic public debate that considered any left-wing citizen who believed in multiculturalism and for the United Kingdom to remain united with Europe. “Language is more than blood” is a quote from the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig that Viktor Klemperer included in his work LTI, the language of the Third Reich, which deals with the influence of speech and words in the radicalization of Germany in the 1930s. An example of how the word intoxicated coexistence to the point of making it a precursor to violence and that serves to understand how the transmission belt of hate works today from the speeches of the extreme right to the streets.
The performative capacity of reality that the public discourse of the extreme right has not only materialized at this time in the flesh of Jo Cox, but in a multitude of tragic events such as the terrorist attack in Christchurch, Utoya, Charlottesville or the clearest in this regard of the correlation of causes that the word implies with the action; the Q-anon pizzeria case, in which a follower of Alex Jones went armed to a pizzeria in Washington DC because he had heard from the ultra agitator that there was a sexual exploitation ring run by Hillary Clinton in the establishment. Abascal is responsible with his language for the actions that may occur by his followers from now on. But Abascal is knocked out. He can’t even keep up with his own bluster and cowers as soon as his bluster is responded to firmly by the left. The leader of VOX is one of the few examples of a representative of the extreme right who takes a step back and gets scared when the expressions he uses reach the dimension in public opinion that they deserve.
At the Atreyu convention, organized every year by Giorgia Meloni’s Italian extreme right, he once again became frightened and cried plaintively over a new defeat of his attempt to scandalize public opinion in Spain with his words about Pedro Sánchez wishing him the same end that Benito Mussolini received hanging by his feet at an Esso gas station in Milan: “I will not speak in Italian because they misunderstand me even when I speak in Spanish. Sometimes it does not matter what we say and the language we use because the ‘sinister ‘ will always manipulate our words, will always lie about our intentions and will always hide our truths. This same week, in Spain the ‘sinister’ media and politics have manipulated and twisted my words to make a violent caricature and lynch me in the public square. I know that That manipulation has reached Italy…I mean that I don’t wish anyone, not even a corrupt person and a traitor, to be hanged by their feet. Nobody, absolutely nobody. “This is something that disgusts me every time it has happened in history.”
Abascal was aware that he had named the dead man before going to the hanged man’s house and that it had not sat well with the heirs of the MSI and Italian fascism that he used the murder of their idol and reference as a model for the end of sanchismo. But Abascal’s cowardice does not detract one bit from the seriousness of the words he expressed during his visit to Argentina because they broaden the discourse of the possible, making the induction of assassination acceptable within the public debate.
VOX is in an existential crisis. His free fall makes him appear erratic, but at the same time it makes him more dangerous because the organizations fight bloodily for their survival. The ultra party is aware of its delicate situation and the impossibility of making a firm and convincing opposition once the reactionary media has identified its existence as a problem for achieving power. They are beaten and surprised because they always had support in the middle of their rope that minimized the cost of their discursive aberrations.
The elections of July 23 have taken away the safety net that the media emporium provided by blaming him for the re-election of Pedro Sánchez, now, each statement that was previously understood, hidden or justified suffers the same negative treatment that the left gives it. . VOX has lost the favor of the media and the freshness of the new and its fiery diatribes exceed the capacity for persistence that a pusillanimous leader like Abascal has never shown. The leader of the Spanish extreme right only wants to continue living very well on a public salary and is worried when he sees that his ideological space gets him into trouble and calls into question his life without working. He is showing himself to be weak and soon the dogs will appear to tear him apart. He may think that the metaphor of ending up hanging by his feet is about his own future in the ultra party.
2023-12-18 11:30:05
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