In his

Madrid

prologue

, from Corte a Checa

, Ignacio Ruiz-Quintano contextualized Foxá's account: "In Spain, a whole millennial regime was liquidated in a doctor's office, as if it were nephritis (...) , from the millennial monarchy to the proletarian revolution passing through an improvised workers' republic in the Spanish way by Ortegas, Ayalas and Marañones, immediately repentant ".

Ignacio Ruiz-Quintano (Burgos, 1958) is for many the best columnist in Spain. Among those who celebrate it was, of course, David Gistau, but Jorge Bustos, Jabois, Rosa Belmonte, Hughes, Luis Herrero and the one who subscribes these lines also consider him (we) a reference. The interview was done alone. How could it be otherwise, the conversation between EL MUNDO and the journalist takes place in the building that was once the

ABC

in Serrano.

He writes that the Second Republic is built against the monarchists. In Spain we call the absence of a monarchy a republic. When the king leaves, the republic comes, but in reality they are the same opportunists of the Restoration. The Second Republic are Miguelito Maura and Azaña entering the Government with their arms and saying: "We come for the Government." In Spain, said Manolo Cano, representative of Curro, De Paula and Pepe Luis, the inhabitant fails. You just have to read Don Niceto Alcalá Zamora. It is enough to read the newspapers that La Esfera de los Libros published in its day, but no one read them. Zapatero kept them hidden for a long time. The question is not a monarchy or a republic, although in the end you have to be a monarchist because here with the monarchy you can be a republican, but with the republic they don't let you be a monarchist. The question is Spain,which has not contributed anything to political thought for three centuries. Well, from the School of Salamanca ... From there, of course, nothing has been produced. For lack of freedom, which no one misses. Thomas Bernhard is right: man does not love freedom, he does not know what to do with freedom; he is barely free, he is dedicated to opening white clothes chests. And the freedoms of expression and thought are exclusive. For José Martí, freedom is the right of every man to be honored. Think honestly here and you'll see where you end up. We also don't have a Kelsen, whom he criticizes a lot in his articles. Not him, I'm not who. To his disciples. I mess with the use they make of it to sell us the Constitutional Court. He invents CT to resolve differences betweenfrom the School of Salamanca ... From there, of course, nothing has been produced. For lack of freedom, which no one misses. Thomas Bernhard is right: man does not love freedom, he does not know what to do with freedom; he is barely free, he is dedicated to opening white clothes chests. And the freedoms of expression and thought are exclusive. For José Martí, freedom is the right of every man to be honored. Think honestly here and you'll see where you end up. We also don't have a Kelsen, whom he criticizes a lot in his articles. Not him, I'm not who. To his disciples. I mess with the use they make of it to sell us the Constitutional Court. He invents CT to resolve differences betweenfrom the School of Salamanca ... From there, of course, nothing has been produced. For lack of freedom, which no one misses. Thomas Bernhard is right: man does not love freedom, he does not know what to do with freedom; he is barely free, he is dedicated to opening white clothes chests. And the freedoms of expression and thought are exclusive. For José Martí, freedom is the right of every man to be honored. Think honestly here and you'll see where you end up. We also don't have a Kelsen, whom he criticizes a lot in his articles. Not him, I'm not who. To his disciples. I mess with the use they make of it to sell us the Constitutional Court. He invents CT to resolve differences betweenman does not love freedom, he does not know what to do with freedom; he is barely free, he is dedicated to opening white clothes chests. And the freedoms of expression and thought are exclusive. For José Martí, freedom is the right of every man to be honored. Think honestly here and you'll see where you end up. We also don't have a Kelsen, whom he criticizes a lot in his articles. Not him, I'm not who. To his disciples. I mess with the use they make of it to sell us the Constitutional Court. He invents CT to resolve differences betweenman does not love freedom, he does not know what to do with freedom; he is barely free, he is dedicated to opening white clothes chests. And the freedoms of expression and thought are exclusive. For José Martí, freedom is the right of every man to be honored. Think honestly here and you'll see where you end up. We also don't have a Kelsen, whom he criticizes a lot in his articles. Not him, I'm not who. To his disciples. I mess with the use they make of it to sell us the Constitutional Court. He invents CT to resolve differences betweenNor do we have a Kelsen, whom he criticizes a lot in his articles. Not him, I'm not who. To his disciples. I mess with the use they make of it to sell us the Constitutional Court. He invents CT to resolve differences betweenNor do we have a Kelsen, whom he criticizes a lot in his articles. Not him, I'm not who. To his disciples. I mess with the use they make of it to sell us the Constitutional Court. He invents CT to resolve differences between

länder

, not to decide on the constitutionality of the laws, as it happens here. And there is the Spanish inability to theorize. I remember from college a book by Elías Díaz on the rule of law that was as funny as Groucho's contracting party. The Spanish does not know how to theorize. Without theory there are no principles, and without principles everything is opportunism, as is obvious. Spain is an opportunistic society arriving late to all parties. The Transition catches us when the spree of '68 ends in Europe. It was like arriving serene at eight in the morning at the end of the year. The moral damage was appalling. The Europeans were already all on the ground and we appeared there wanting to march. They took away what they liked about us and passed on us ... And there we continue. Opportunism is very of people with love, whom we imitate as we can.As a middle class, if we are poor, we are envious. And if we take a little pocket money, as when entering the EU or now with the funds of the blue aid, we change envy, which is indeed poor, for disloyalty. As a society, Spain has internalized fear. This is what happened in '78, which brought us to this mess of a nation of nations. All that. You are very critical of the Transition. In '75 I was a chicken who was excited about democracy, which was the plan of the Democratic Junta, which had a pintón. Those of us in the know bought Cambio 16 as if it were theSpain has internalized fear. This is what happened in '78, which brought us to this mess of a nation of nations. All that. You are very critical of the Transition. In '75 I was a chicken who was excited about democracy, which was the plan of the Democratic Junta, which had a pintón. Those of us in the know bought Cambio 16 as if it were theSpain has internalized fear. This is what happened in '78, which brought us to this mess of a nation of nations. All that. You are very critical of the Transition. In '75 I was a chicken who was excited about democracy, which was the plan of the Democratic Junta, which had a pintón. Those of us in the know bought Cambio 16 as if it were the

Ace Color

or

Captain Thunder

. And suddenly, the great cheating, with the older Houdini Communist Party. Those who got off the ship are the ones who now give the badge of the rupture that they annoyed by running to the cast. At the table sat the heads of those from here, who put legality and a lot of fear, and the heads of those from there, who put legitimacy and a lot of greed. The famous moral superiority of the left that we still suffer from was that gratuitous cession of the right. If you accept that it is possible to pass "from law to law" from a dictatorship to a democracy, you are accepting that "from law to law" can pass from one democracy to another dictatorship. It does not share the glorification of the right wing of the figure of Adolfo Suárez.R.- That glorification is recent. Suarez was the dealer for the game. "Mississippi gambler," Guerra, now a statesman, would tell him.We Spaniards are amazed by the State. The State is a coral reef where each creature seeks life according to its nature. The parties are organs of the state, and they boast. The party states were assembled by the American Army with the defeated, Italy and Germany. The Marshall Plan had to be carried out and they needed controllable regimes for the cold war. Mario Soares said that Ford and Kissinger spoke with Franco, already ill, to let the marines enter Portugal to act against the communists, and that Franco replied: «I am Galician and I do not accept that Portugal is not what it is. want to be ». The right to decide to the ferrolana! De Gaulle got out of the trap with his Fifth Republic, copying, wrong, the American Constitution. They say that Le Pen can win. I don't think so, although nothing would happen either. Money talks.And the one who distributes it now is China. America fell to us with Clinton. I believe that globalism is the largest slave movement that history has known. They want to equalize everyone from below (from above it is impossible) to make us sustainable, and egalitarian thinking has a hatred for life. Those things that Jean Cau already warned about in the 70s: life, not talk; life does not dialogue, life sprouts, that's all. But what life? The European life we ​​have known is over. Globalism wants us slaves in short skirts, and what is worse, quiet. Poor with Netflix. That's what the Trump phenomenon was about, an American epigone of the 20th century, and look at journalism. Does the hare jump and you stop to piss? A character like Trump, who is a concentrate of America, and does he not catch your attention? Instead of journalists, we have moralists.Everyone lectures you, because nobody has to talk about. Why does he say that the PP does not face what is now called a cultural battle? The PP must be understood. It is one leg of the consensus table. Only the partners are important in the consensus. The PP is the right that cannot be called the right because it would incur Francoism, which was on the right, and then it calls itself the center. His job is to shepherd (politically deactivate) the social right, which sticks tired of voting and then never gets the packet of cigarettes it has asked for in the machine. That petty bourgeoisie (the upper class votes for the PSOE) whose morality teaches that it is "a better living dog than a dead lion," regardless of the fact that the dog will also die, and that the lion, before dying, was alive, and was a lion. They talk about management. What passion is that? But that's not bad.Is there democracy in Spain? Social democracy, whatever you want. Political democracy, zero. In reality, it has only existed in the US, which invented it on the fly with its federal Constitution, with three principles: representative in society, elective in the Government and divisive in the State. Do you choose your representative in Parliament here? And your president? It seems simple, but this and the Second Amendment are incomprehensible to a Spaniard, who prefers to believe in the Trinity. The fact is that America discovered democracy as Columbus had discovered America, without knowing it. He was fleeing a liberal and sovereign Parliament, as monstrous for freedom as an absolute king. With what did the Transitional Communist Party not want to break? It did not break with anything. He signed up for the cast, which for him was a hit.Carrillo saw that the violent revolution no longer had a future. That it was better to take the state. Hitler's legal revolution in Weimar. You take the State and, once inside, you put emergency decrees to be even more uncontrolled and you legislate at full speed. The bad guys take advantage of the state of emergency against you every day. And the last law is always the one that makes you illegal for opposing its laws. And that was the end of it. Was it freer in the 80s? Except for politics, we had all the freedoms. And there was no social repression of now. They didn't stop me in the military the way they stop me on the street today. "Where are you going, sir?" It is the new public order. In Madrid they kick your house down for playing music. In Germany you are thrown to the ground for reading the Constitution in the square. In England you get fired up for reading the Bible aloud. Something very bad is coming.Here in the 80s, we smoked and drank everything on the street. Today the street is full of quinces that notify the police if your mask falls off or if you put two tables together on a terrace. Everything is cheers to health, to the neighborhood rest and to egalitarianism. It is the hatred of life. But hey, it's May and we're alive. Are you fed up with Chaves Nogales' vindication? I don't know why beautiful people want to be Chaves Nogales, who was a fatalist. In the 80s, for reading about Belmonte, they called you facha. Do you want to be Chaves Nogales today? Write a book like Belmonte's but by Miguel Abellán, I want to see you there, perillán. The other thing, that of the equidistance of the Spains, does not interest me. If Spain were divided betweenToday the street is full of quinces that notify the police if your mask falls off or if you put two tables together on a terrace. Everything is cheers to health, to the neighborhood rest and to egalitarianism. It is the hatred of life. But hey, it's May and we're alive. Are you fed up with Chaves Nogales' vindication? I don't know why beautiful people want to be Chaves Nogales, who was a fatalist. In the 80s, for reading about Belmonte, they called you facha. Do you want to be Chaves Nogales today? Write a book like Belmonte's but by Miguel Abellán, I want to see you there, perillán. The other thing, that of the equidistance of the Spains, does not interest me. If Spain were divided betweenToday the street is full of quinces that notify the police if your mask falls off or if you put two tables together on a terrace. Everything is cheers to health, to the neighborhood rest and to egalitarianism. It is the hatred of life. But hey, it's May and we're alive. Are you fed up with Chaves Nogales' vindication? I don't know why beautiful people want to be Chaves Nogales, who was a fatalist. In the 80s, for reading about Belmonte, they called you facha. Do you want to be Chaves Nogales today? Write a book like Belmonte's but by Miguel Abellán, I want to see you there, perillán. The other thing, that of the equidistance of the Spains, does not interest me. If Spain were divided betweenAre you fed up with the claim of Chaves Nogales? I don't know why beautiful people want to be Chaves Nogales, who was a fatalist. In the 80s, for reading about Belmonte, they called you facha. Do you want to be Chaves Nogales today? Write a book like Belmonte's but by Miguel Abellán, I want to see you there, perillán. The other thing, that of the equidistance of the Spains, does not interest me. If Spain were divided betweenAre you fed up with the claim of Chaves Nogales? I don't know why beautiful people want to be Chaves Nogales, who was a fatalist. In the 80s, for reading about Belmonte, they called you facha. Do you want to be Chaves Nogales today? Write a book like Belmonte's but by Miguel Abellán, I want to see you there, perillán. The other thing, that of the equidistance of the Spains, does not interest me. If Spain were divided between

Cobradiezmos

(bull pardoned in Seville in 2016) and

Cazarrata

(fought in Las Ventas, 2016)? Spain is from

Cobradiezmos

, which was a bit bluff. Blandengue, the Fary would say. Eternal Spain is

Cazarrata

, which had the blood of our sixteenth century. What are the bulls for Spain? Of the good thing that Ortega said, one thing was that to understand Spain you have to go to the bulls. It's true. The modern bullfighting of the back leg. That is the Spanish society of the Transition. Everything is backward leg. Imposture, posture and rejection of all greatness. And the one who throws the leg forward becomes suspicious and does not fight again. José Tomás sneaked in, but no one else. The Prieto de la Cal say that the bullfighting will end the party sooner. Yes. The enemy is inside, like in football. The enemy is the passes, and steps, back. A bore. And above in the bulls they don't even allow you to protest. You yell "peak!" in the broadside and they send you to the guards.You are a great scholar of Don Torcuato Luca de Tena, founder of

ABC

. Since he did a newspaper called

ABC

and a magazine called

Blanco y Negro

is a genius. I started as a fellow in Economics right behind his statue in the Serrano newsroom. He had two mottos. One, of a company, in tile, at the entrance: "The well-being and future of those who work in it depend on the prosperity of Prensa Española." And the other, with a personal attitude: «If you see a bull and a fool coming towards you, go to the bull! ...». With that, he worked a cultural revolution and an economic miracle. I made it mine and only managed to lose jobs. Why? He was a genius and I wasn't. He created modern journalism in Spain, and for this he had to create the reader, a task that took him 15 years, a cultural generation of those of Ortega, who by taking

The Sun

wanted to make an

ABC

of the left, because then the cultural complexes were held by the left.

He was talking about calling his newspaper

XYZ

, to be, not the alpha, but the omega. How did he do it? The journalism that Don Torcuato found was summed up by Bonafoux in a saying: "It would be truly ridiculous if journalists, who don't have what to eat , we had convictions ».

The first thing Don Torcuato did was to dignify the office, to give what to eat, and the rest came in addition.

It was our Pulitzer, with more merit.

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