This weekend I heard a clearly left-aligned friend say in public that it was not correct to call Alberto Núñez Feijóo a fascist. Well, I told him later, it’s not the ideological classification that corresponds to his political affiliation. But then, how do we qualify those who align, vote and govern with the fascist far right, whether from their own country or another, when they play European Parcheesi? This century wants to confuse us all with its liquid structures, its destruction of the norms and rules that allowed us to move in a limited world. We lack exact words to define these actions and, therefore, we lack precise concepts to defend against them.
Here is Donald Trump and his ghostly government, each name made public more outlandish than the last, a veritable podium of undocumented trash. In which box, in which drawer, in which folder do we place the orange terror? A guy who decided to outsource government action, making ministers other fools like himself, while ordering the most unbalanced of all, the fanatic Elon Musk, to destroy public administration, to put an end to structures which If we want to keep a State understood as such, such a type, we say, can never be classified in the box of fascism, defined in classical texts as a totalitarian movement which promotes the intervention of State in economy, politics and society. Well, Trump doesn’t want a state. Like Milei.
