A party with such a long history as the PSOE should not despise the teachings of the past, but rescue from them everything that can be used in the present to avoid making the same fatal mistakes.

Just a few days ago, coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Republic,

President Sánchez

, from the platform of Congress, seat of national sovereignty, tried to incorporate the inheritance of that ill-fated regime into his identity program, without prior notice

mind a critical analysis of what the failure of that experience meant for the recent history of Spain.

In those years, liberal values ​​began to be postponed in favor of a radicalization, left and right

, which ended up turning the words that were used for dialogue into the fists that would star in a fratricidal confrontation of three long years.

Unfortunately, and without wanting to establish any parallels, because history never repeats itself in the same way, today the PSOE is making the same mistake by allowing itself to be contaminated by the extreme and dissolving discourse that Pablo Iglesias tries to impose on it.

The Madrid socialist leader,

Angel Gabilondo

, who at the beginning of the campaign was the candidate who showed a more moderate and social-democratic profile, has chosen to turn his strategy around and bet on polarization.

To do this, yesterday mobilized

Big-Marlaska

, the minister who, with his policy of bringing prisoners closer, better symbolizes the Government's alliance with EH Bildu, and that with dismissals of commands such as

Lopez de los Cobos

He aspires to ingratiate himself with the Catalan independentists.

As if that were not enough, Gabilondo was also accompanied by the most genuine representative of the corrosive television populism,

Jorge Javier Vazquez

.

By contrast, in an example of political responsibility,

Diaz Ayuso

yesterday unmarked himself from the "circus" in which they intend to turn the United We Can and Vox campaign, an attitude that was endorsed by

Pablo Casado

in the same act, when he affirmed that in the PP they do not want "neither stones nor bullets. Neither threats nor insults. Neither boycotts nor sanitary cordons. We want harmony and civil peace.

An example that the PSOE should follow

.

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