"EVERY day that passes is a battle between good and evil." It is one of the main slogans of Roger Ailes, the creator of Fox and Trump, who may very well go through the most influential philosopher of our time. His teachings on politics, television and entertainment have reached an almost planetary success, decades after he himself spent all his days with his nights fighting against evil. It was the evil of the American Democrats, their Capuchin coffees, gays, feminist women, scrupulous journalists, immigrants, doubters with doubts or vegetarians.

Ailes - absolute satellite - perfected the "cultural war" facing the plain people with calluses in their hands against the "progress" elites that mean colony. The flat people who like TV presenters with cleavage and miniskirts, meat only round and round, double coffee with double sugar. Those who call bread bread and wine wine. Those who felt despised by the "progres" found in Ailes someone who took them out of anonymity, who paid attention to them. He gave them a louder voice in the public conversation.

What fascinates the series The loudest voice about the creator of Fox and Trump is not only Russell Crowe's interpretation -which also-, neither the addictive and radioactive intelligence of the protagonist, nor the endurance of the women who served him , nor his obsessive activity as a sexual predator that caused his downfall. No. What makes the hair stand on end is that the future we live today was written 20 years ago.

Ailes triumphs after he died, he died in 2017. His speech is surprisingly current. «People don't want to be informed, they want to feel informed. If you tell them what they have to think, you lose them, if you tell them what they have to feel, you win them ». A very simple summary of the teachings that contain hundreds of written works on the role of emotions in politics after the 2008 crisis.

Trump, Bolsonaro, Boris Johnson, Matteo Salvini, Viktor Orban. The winners of politics in America and Europe are students - although they don't know it - of Roger Ailes. In Spain, the Vox party also broadens its electoral support based on fighting against the "progressive dictatorship." But not only. In Spain there are many people in public life - politicians and journalists especially - who get up every day thinking that life is a battle of good against evil. Being good themselves, and evil all others.

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