I know socialists who go to the ballot box as the scaffold and curse the party that has betrayed them but will never stop voting. I also know popular irredentos, who at fifty-ten are no longer going to be deterred by lezos or punics , or seduced by the novelty, that thing so zafia. What I do not know is any captive voter of Citizens , of those who, no matter how much they are trampled on, will continue to be one more tile of what sociologists call, with such poetic precision, the floor of the party. Citizens had been a stateless shelter for acronyms since its birth and it is natural that it was because the first settlers came fleeing from nationalism when nationalism flooded everything in Catalonia.

Perhaps altitude sickness has made Albert Rivera forget this. The leader of Citizens is a baffling strategist, like those chess players who, as they are able to anticipate dozens of movements, always play the game in the future. It is a limit form of politics, because when the predictive chain is broken and one, only one fails, of the succession of movements that the virtuous believed inevitable, everything ends in catastrophe.

The player had been screened within a year and a half. He envisioned that an eccentric agreement of the PSOE would lift a precarious legislature. He trusted, as always, in his intuition : the unassuming society with Podemos would wear out the Socialists and the pending judicial sentences, to the PP. Citizens would then emerge virginal from the collapse of the two moles of bipartisanship .

The player has underestimated Sanchez's ambition and continues to overestimate the destructive power of corruption. The main flaw of the virtuoso tactician is that, in his self-absorption, he often forgets that the adversary also plays.

The 10-N call has returned Rivera to the present, which has become an inhospitable place . It is what happens when you challenge the forces of nature. And he cannot take refuge in party patriotism because that is forged with ideology and Citizens is a postideological artifact. There is not even a device worthy of the name. The scope of decision has been narrowed and only fit Hervías and Villegas , while people of extraordinary value ask each other in the suburbs when and why they stopped counting to begin to sanction.

Any other in these circumstances would be sentenced but the policy to the limit that practices makes Rivera a dizzying leader. In addition, he already knows, as Sánchez knows, what it is to return from the dead .

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