Anniversari

Two years ago, in gloomy offices, in meetings that were pretended confidential, it was said that it was little less than impossible to intervene the Generalitat. This was told to those who were interested in how it is that leaders with such a clandestine vocation continued to represent the State in Catalonia, and who said it knew a lot about power and its possibilities. Two years ago nobody was certain that the regional police were loyal compliers of the court orders, two years ago it began to be assumed that the State had vanished in the community and that is why we had to disembark there, two years ago, to a kind of national brigades.

Two years ago, the most recurrent metaphor was the railroad, that wild and absurd expression that equates to the train crash. There was talk of the danger of disaffection, it was warned that a response proportionate to the nationalist challenge would engender hundreds of thousands of new independents. That the dynasts of the future would be huge, that millions of people would settle in a perpetual Maidan . That when the flow of disaffections overflows the institutional channels it would be impossible to prevent secession. Only two years ago.

It should be remembered that the only independence brought by the process was that of nationalism with its masks. It was revealed that the force with which he extorted is merely symbolic. It is a very useful experience, among other things because it allows us to look at the new statutory process in the Basque Country with a certain familiarity. On October 1 it was only possible thanks to the patient national construction of a Pujol that was Urkullu before Urkullu, that is: the intelligent and pragmatic and responsible and loyal and professional and even generous good nationalist who had to be pampered so that he did not I did bad. Now that Urkullu opposes Spanish of the year and Ortuzar's threats are dispatched as if there were still what the elders call internal consumption, it is worth remembering what Spain was before the process opened the curtain. And also what it was not even like: an electoral claim for Pedro Sánchez.

When vertigo enters, like two years ago, conservative Catalanism is entrusted to radicals. The revolution requires a trade that the convergent lacks. Today the fear of nationalism is dread. That, as they suspect, a condemnatory sentence completes the experiment and, after a brief excitement, life moves quietly away from the martyrs. Waiting for the rostrum in a .cat every October 1st.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Catalonia
• Spain
• Basque Country
• Pedro Sanchez

Turn of the page The thousand and one faces of Sánchezstein

Liberal comments The PP and its maquetos