Trick or Treating

At Feijóo's door, Pedro Sánchez called, disguised as a statesman and asking "trick or treat?" with a child's smile And Feijóo changed the deal and gave him a handful of judicial sweets without realizing at first that trick and treating with Sánchez are the same. The rest we already know: the evening ended with a slamming door and with the trinkets on the floor. Now we are in what we call 'the story', which is the explanation after the fact of the disagreement with the mutual intention of blaming the other for the breach of the agreement. And the PP is once again falling into the trap of believing that it needs to justify its belated outburst of mistrust, that is, of placing itself in the wake of the adversary's initiative and the cascade of reproaches propagated by the Socialists with their overwhelming propaganda and media superiority. The difference between the left and the right is that the second is always ready to apologize to the first. And so, the leadership of the popular doubts its decision and internalizes with a bad conscience the mental framework of a leader suffering from trembling legs and the provincial syndrome before the factual powers inside the M-30, while the head of the Government delivery without problems to agree what is necessary with Bildu and Esquerra. The usual story: some hesitate and the other hits. The one who has failed in his attempt to control justice is the one who pretends to be the offended party and the one who has done –badly or well– what he should dedicate himself to giving explanations instead of asking for them. Today Feijóo wears out more agreeing with Sánchez than not doing so. Perhaps this impossibility of understanding is sad and pernicious for the country, but it is reality and, as Serrat sang, there is no remedy. The anti-Sanchista party, a heterogeneous coalition, without acronym or logo, of people who consider the president a toxic character, is broader and stronger than any other and its program has a single point called eviction. It is about millions of angry citizens and united by a feeling of rejection that Sánchez himself has stimulated with his strategy of sectarian confrontation. The only thing they want is to throw him out and that kind of phobia generates a state of mind that is reluctant even to a demonstration of State responsibility. That is why the 'pepera' insistence, expressed yesterday by Elías Bendodo, on keeping a window of compromise open is not very well understood. Perhaps it is just a way of appearing goodwill to the European institutions, which are somewhere between stupefied and worried about the collapse of a systemic institution. Among his voters, at least among the convinced, the prospect of compromise did not arouse any enthusiasm. What they may regret is that shrunken spirit, as if from remorse or fear of conflict, with which the party of the alternative opposes itself.