Don Mariano liked to repeat a quote from Ortega from the epilogue of The Rebellion of the Masses that politicians should have tattooed on their thigh: "Every ignored reality prepares its revenge."

Rajoy also ignored realities that took revenge on him, but his native allergy to posturing gave him a long career and seven years in Moncloa.

That the career of his successor would not be so long, we began to suspect

the day we saw him put the fucking master's glasses on the plane

, as Gistau said, and he

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