The place of the third Spain

Last month, on account of the annual reminder of the

, David Mejía interviewed

.

The interview, like all of Mejía's, was priceless.

Of course, this time, the interviewee made things easier.

The interviews with the author of

are a feast.

The highlight of the interview, which usually shows the moral temperature of the interviewers, could justify several academic congresses or, if you want, to refer to more serious things, appear on the frontispiece of the

: "Republican values ​​are better today defended by the

than by most of the left and the nationalists".

Such a sensible assessment has plenty of reasons.

It was definitively confirmed on October 3, 2017. That day,

reminded the coup plotters who claimed to market the common territory that the

It was not the property of the king, but the common territory of all Spaniards, and that we are all subject to the law that we give ourselves.

However, the Trapiello trial angered the Republican T-shirt left.

Nothing surprising.

For a certain left, the Republic is a farmhouse that it is not willing to share with anyone;

well, yes, with those who defend fiscal privileges protected by historical rights, proto-fascist ethnic-linguistic identities and the right of some citizens to deprive others of all rights;

come on, those principles that would have embarrassed

.

In short, we are not going to repeat what is known and ignored: republicanism for

is a trademark that looks with the same conviction with which

Pfizer sponsorship emblazonry.

If you have doubts about his mistreatment of the republican ideal, take a look at the recent book by A. de Francisco and F. Herreros,

.

But Trapiello's statement also bothered a certain right that, at times, resembles his worst caricature.

And it is that, in the back of it, there was a vindication of the values ​​of the Second Republic.

And that back room has an important implication: one thing was the Republic and another, the barbarities of those days, not so different -everything is said- from those that at that time squandered

.

Trapiello separated the republican child from the dirty water of crimes and gunmen.

The principles and history.

Something very reasonable.

And very deep.

The

was not responsible for Nazism, although

never came to repeal the

of 1919, nor the

began in 1789, even though some historians, as neat with the archives as slovenly with the inferences, have insisted on finding in the

the germs of Stalinism.

The

was not halfway between

and the Republic.

The third Spain, because it was democratic, was republican.

For the same reasons that today he defends Felipe VI and doubts the republican commitment of those of the

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