Let the Spaniards consider themselves defeated, who, as Felipe González often recalls, prefer to be identified as children of democracy and not as grandchildren of the civil war.

The Sánchez government, the only one in Europe with communists,

did not finish stoking the embers of national cainism with the exhumation by decree of Franco's corpse

during the electoral campaign.

The architect of that operation, today promoted, yesterday presented a new Democratic Memory Law whose undisguised purpose returned

It is going to be the division of the Spanish into two camps, the rewriting of history from power to legitimize its divisive propaganda, the destruction of the work of concord that lit up the 78 system, the cohesion of the Frankenstein alliance among all the challengers of this system and the demonization of the opposition as a caricature in favor of a dictatorship.

Not today's Cuban, but yesterday's Francoist.

Nothing is surprising about Sanchismo, but his crude manipulation of the wounds that bled Spain is outrageous.

It is about bringing Zapatero's fatal occurrence to a paroxysm

to seek in the extremism of the 30s the legitimation of the Spanish left, instead of looking for it where it is: in the acceptance of the parliamentary monarchy by the PCE of Carrillo and in the social democratic modernization of the PSOE of González to the detriment of Marxist nostalgies.

This left erred in the opinion of Zapatero, after Podemos and now Sánchez.

The norm is a nonsense that oscillates between the superfluous and the poisonous, since it aspires to

artificially keep civil warfare alive

subtracting it from the study of historians.

Including "democratic memory" in education is redundant, because history is already studied in the classroom, or it obeys an indoctrination plan.

Inventorying "plundered assets" is meaningless if there is no patrimonial responsibility.

Removing from the Valley of the Fallen José Antonio Primo de Rivera, assassinated by Republicans and therefore a victim of the war, invalidates the vaunted intention of "putting the victims in the center", not to mention more recent victims who are He humiliates his murderers by gaining impunity for making a pact with Bildu.

Inventing a Prosecutor's Office for amnestied crimes is too much like creating

another organ of propaganda, if not censorship

, with fines of 200 to 150,000 euros for those who commit the new crime of pro-Franco apology.

In other words, Franco with an anti-Franco alibi.

The characteristic of the reactionary left.

Meanwhile, the Spanish are facing a summer of uncertainty due to a fifth wave whose management has been relinquished to the autonomies, the electricity and fuel bills reach historic ceilings,

tourism-dependent economy stagnates

and the reforms on which European funds depend are shipwrecked in the internal coalition war.

That only seems united for one thing: demonize half of the Spanish.

"I don't box against ghosts"

, sentenced Alfonso Guerra, who, unlike Sánchez, did militate against the dictatorship.

Of course, that PSOE, who never fell into the temptation of surrendering to sectarian revenge from La Moncloa, is still another remote ghost today.

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