Good morning.
I see no reason why you would regularly read this newsletter if you like Donald Trump, so let me put it this way: I have bad news for you, for me, for everyone.
Yes, it’s Trump
Donald Trump won the elections in the United States and he will once again be president of the most powerful country in the world. For the moment, the count is not finished, it is not official, but all the experts assume the victory of the most controversial candidate, the most eccentric, the least attached to democracy. Trump won in the decisive states and also won in the total number of votes. Barring a very unlikely upset, this is a clear victory.
Kamala Harris failed to turn her miraculous emergence to replace Joe Biden into a real result. Another bitter lesson, and there are already too many to take note of, for a liberal elite in the United States which already systematically confuses its bubble, our bubble, with reality.
Reality says that the traditional (and majority) white man, who feels mistreated by a complex and urban world, has turned to his media protector. Against Kamala Harris, Trump should improve his results against Hillary Clinton in 2016. The counterattack of the reactionary vote is confirmed: against feminism, against immigration, against diversity, against the fundamental guarantees of politics and despite the truth . To this, Trump managed to add the vote of very wealthy Republicans and certain Latino communities who voted as conservatives and not as immigrants.
Trump is now a man with more experience in office. A convicted criminalA instigator of coupswho already knows that none of this penalizes him in the elections. For this second term, several agreements are in progress and a formidable teamlike the delusional owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, or an anti-vaccine for public health policies. He demonstrated it during the campaign: This is a resentful Trump, more vengeful and more dangerous..
We already know the shock wave that the United States is generating in the rest of the world. The progressive agenda around the world needs to be rethought.
- You have all the news on the count and the reactions in this live from elDiario.eswith the deployment of colleagues who worked all night so that you can have breakfast with this news. We already feel it.
What went wrong
It’s been a week since the Valencia disaster and I think the shared feeling is that those affected not only want solidarity but also explanations. Because it is not only a natural disaster, but also a political catastrophe. And we run the risk that between hoaxes and phobias, the truth about what happened will be buried. SO today on the podcast We ask ourselves: what went wrong? who failed? What decisions could have been different? who should have taken them? We review the details of the crisis that you may not yet know.
We continue to be deployed in Valencia to talk to you about the human side and the political side of this crisis. Our colleague Raquel Ejerique was live with one of the families affected: “we sleep with a knife under our pillow”. Our Valencian editorial team tells you What was Carlos Mazón doing? as he was due to meet his emergency team on the key day.
A week later we the first official number of missing people. This is a figure that must be taken with a grain of salt, but this is what we have: there are 89 people who have not yet been located. But we are only talking about those whose families have formally reported their disappearance by providing data and DNA samples. This figure does not mean that it should be added to the 216 deaths already confirmed; Firstly because (hopefully) they may be alive and secondly because there are still 62 unidentified dead who could be among the 89 wanted. Either way, the disaster bureaucracy is a bit gruesome, but as there is so much speculation about the numbersI wanted to try to explain it to you well. Let’s say that it is not easy to counter the amount of unverified sensationalism that flows into public debate. Iker Jiménez on television and others highlighted on social networks.
Don’t let it pass
- Now yes. The Constitutional Court changed his mind (in fact, what has changed is the composition of the Constitutional Court) on the state of alert during the pandemic. After appeal, the new judgment supports confinement and establishes that it does not imply the suspension of a right but rather its limitation.
- Errejón accused. The judge has already been formally subpoenaed to testify as accused of Iñigo Errejón for the complaint of Elisa Mouliaá for sexual assault. She will appear before the judge this Thursday and he will appear in court next Tuesday the 12th. Moreover, this is the replacement of Errejón as Sumar’s spokesperson in Congress. It could be Veronica Martinez..
- face. The public call for tenders to manage private insurance used by public agents, the things of life, has been abandoned. Private insurers have decided to take a stand after comments from the Ministry of Health that this model has no future. Details.
In today’s chapter
- From the West Wing to the Good Fight. For the US election hangover, we could use a few series from a few years ago that nicely summarize how politics has changed in just 20 years. Released in 1999, watching The West Wing of the White House today is an almost psychedelic experience, and not just because the image is in 4:3 and with that whitish patina, but because it plays with an ideal policy that seems old. Since 2019, The Good Fight has been warning us against the cracks in a country that allowed the normalization of an absurd extreme right.
- The tie. This morning I remembered an episode of another series on North American politics, but with a comedic tone and a very good comedy. I’m talking about Veep and that episode where the election ends in a draw. Yes, it is unlikely, even very unlikely: there is a 0.4% chance of this happening. But between laughter and laughter, in Veep, they explain what the Constitution has provided for a case like this.
- Voices from the radio. In a week where live radio demonstrated its strength in capturing the emotion of a tragedy, a documentary that I came across almost by chance also fits well: Les Voix de la Radio. It is true that they put the great announcers of our time talking about subjects already mentioned a thousand times (11M, the pandemic, ETA, 23F), but then there are wonderful glimpses of more unknown people like Severino Donate (master of podcast when it didn’t exist). Oh, and the voice of Gonzalo Cortizo, now a colleague of elDiario.es, comes at a historic moment.
That’s all for today.
A hug,
Juanlu.
