Only 48 hours after Donald Trump paved the judicial and political path to run for the Presidency of the United States at the head of the Republican Party, Miguel Urban, MEP and member of Anticapitalistas, arrived in Cádiz to present at the Adelante headquarters his book ‘Trumpismos’, a political essay that reflects on the international extreme right.
“It was foreseeable,” he points out in a telephone conversation with INFORMACIÓN, that the magnate would clear the obstacles to return to the White House. “The bad news” after Super Tuesday, key to determining the candidacies of the two main Americans in the ancient North American democracy, “is that Joe Biden will be measured.” The Democratic leader, he maintains, “has demobilized his electorate in his years” at the head of the Government and “his support for Israel” disqualifies him as a retaining wall and alternative to populism.
Urban, originally linked to 15M and Podemos, knows what they are talking about after unraveling the ins and outs of international politics as a member of the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left.
“The crises of neoliberal and ecological governance have generated a lot of frustration and figures like Trump feed on that insecurity to offer false security in the future by recovering the old values of the past,” he explains. The model was successful and now “we are suffering a reactionary wave throughout the world.”
Milei’s recent victory in Argentina confirms the seriousness of the phenomenon, which also threatens to become strong now in Portugal. “In Spain, the extreme right has never had as much influence and power as it does today,” she maintains, to the point that the traditional left has adopted extreme approaches in immigration policies.
“That Fernando Grande-Marlaska maintains that appropriate action was taken despite the murder of 40 people in the Melilla valley” is an intolerable concession. And he warns that Vox sets the agenda for the PP, something similar to what happened in Italy, where Meloni’s people first supported Berlusconi until he came to power, “so we would be wrong if we think that he is the vaccine.”
For Urban, the media, whether located on one side or the other of the ideological spectrum, have been key to this growth. “They gave it a voice even before they had representation in the institutions because it generated expectations,” she says.
He also attributes responsibility to the left, “which has acted with a certain condescension and has failed to enter into the dynamics of the counterproposal” in the face of fake news or the contradictions of the extreme right in its defense of the primary sector, “when it supports the primary sector but it approves trade agreements” with third countries in Brussels that harm the Spanish countryside.
There are no answers “or magic formulas,” he admits. However, in the book he refers to three cases in which the ultras have been stopped: the Black Lives Matter movement, the countercultural movement in England in the late 70s and 80s and the defeat of Golden Dawn, in Poland, “unknown although copy”.
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2024-03-10 18:20:00
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