Spain is playing with fire, and his name is Santiago Abascal
1/22/20
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from The Washington Post,
1/21/20:
Two Spanish factions — the far left, whose agenda includes cultural aggression, and Catalonia’s secessionists — are playing with fire. Santiago Abascal is the fire.
His party’s name — Vox (Voice) — proclaims that it exists to speak for those who think their beliefs have become not just embattled but unutterable. Those beliefs — about nationalism, marriage, immigration, schooling and even bullfighting and hunting — have lost ground in the democratic competition of Spain’s rowdy marketplace of ideas. This does not assuage their sense of grievance because they think the public forum unfairly privileges other voices. Sound familiar, America?
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