Enough of continuing to call ultra-hateful and cobbled vandalism anti-fascism.

Enough that the left continues to romanticize and banalize ideological-rooted violence at the same time, as if the second leg of the civil war had been played in Vallecas yesterday.

Vox had the authorization of the Government Delegation

to hold a campaign event in Puente de Vallecas, where in the last general elections it obtained 12.18%.

Ashamed to have to remember that, apart from

the

s sympathies that the third party in Congress arouses, it is assisted by the perfect democratic right to campaign anywhere in the national territory.

And ashamed that

the Batasunization of Spanish politics

that we already found in Navarra and Catalonia against leaders of PP, Ciudadanos and Vox spread to the neighborhoods of Madrid.

There is nothing heroic or anti-fascist about stoning the head of a Vox supporter who goes to a square for a rally of his party.

Pablo Iglesias was the first to legitimize radical antagonism with his aggressive friend-enemy rhetoric

in public discourse.

It was he who baptized the harassment as "democratic syrup" and gave it a political letter without suspecting that it would end up turning against him.

That is why it is outrageous that forces like Podemos spend the day decreeing anti-fascist alerts and warning against the threat of an alleged violent far right when at the moment of truth the concrete episodes of politically motivated violence systematically start from the same side: the extreme left.

The Minister of the Interior deserves a separate chapter.

As he did with the escrache to the leaders of Cs during the Pride,

Marlaska avoided deploying a sufficient police device

to contain the violent ultra-left who had been announcing their intention to blow up the Vox rally.

If he is faithful to his own antecedents, he will still run to legitimize the attacks as a logical consequence of Abascal's speech.

All the parties - and especially the one that wants to represent the institutional left: the PSOE - must condemn without palliative the attacks on Vox in Vallecas.

Because from that spiral, once unleashed, no one is saved.

And because

democratic tolerance is proven by being absolutely intolerant of all forms of violence

without distinction of acronym, especially when it affects those with whom we disagree.

That and nothing else is true anti-fascism.

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