(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. El mal fario)
The director of this newspaper, Bieito Rubido, has said that Pedro Sánchez is going to end very badly. And the PSOE, today more Sánchez’s gang than his party, has become angry and wants to pursue the director of El Debate judicially for wishing the president ill and, according to them, threatening him with nothing less than a bad end to his life. Put another way, in more colloquial terms, they want to throw the book at Bieto Rubido for putting a bad-luck curse on their beloved leader.
No one can be surprised any longer at the follies of a Spanish socialism that has sunk into leftist radicalism, into generalized and obscene corruption, and above all into an absolutely deranged and hysterical struggle against the truth and against the most obvious realities. There are many politicians who, with greater or lesser success, have tried to deceive Spaniards throughout their history. But no one has ever set out to treat them as absolute imbeciles the way Sánchez’s gang does, obscenely.
In these times of general upheaval in which Sánchez and his ministers are already launched, by way of abuse, insult, crime and arrogance, into a head-on collision with legality, the opposition, and all the sectors of Spanish society that refuse to bless crime and folly, it must be made very clear that Rubido is quite right. And that if he can be accused of anything, it is of being excessively cautious in formulating a prognosis that is, for the rest, fairly evident and foreseeable. Sánchez is going to end badly. Very badly. He will end as a dictator or as a defendant answering for his outrages. And the first option does not exclude the second. Because Sánchez has to end very badly, for the good, the freedom and the future of Spanish society and the Spanish nation.
As Rubido said, in these five days the husband of Begoña Gómez had the golden opportunity to announce his withdrawal and seek a less traumatic way of stepping away from politics. And one that, over time, would make it easier to manage later on, if not his impunity, then at least a certain leniency for him and his circle when Spain once again has a legal and legitimate government, a defender of legality and the Constitution.
But it is clear that Pedro Sánchez’s character and the disorders that define it are his worst enemy when it comes to seeking non-tragic ways of facing his immense and terrible responsibilities for the incalculable damage he has caused to the Spanish people and to the State and its institutions.
Even the most ardent fans of the head of government know today that his pause for supposed sentimental turmoil was nothing but one more piece of baseness. And that he did it with the intention of perpetrating a self-coup that would leave his hands free to strangle the justice system and the media that threaten the impunity and the brazenness with which he himself, his wife, his brother, his family, his ministers and the entire gang that is the Socialist Party have moved and continue to move.
What Sánchez has achieved is that not only Spain, not only Europe, but literally the whole world now knows some of the most sordid aspects of the Spanish head of government’s circle, which resembles a company with management practices proper to establishments for the exercise of prostitution. And that even in the newspapers in principle most friendly to his ideology, it is a constant that the Spanish government comes across as a putrid quagmire composed of very minor beings of the lowest human and moral quality.
Europe shows every day more symptoms of weariness with the arbitrariness and whims of a progressivism that plunges into poverty, falling competitiveness, deindustrialization, educational collapse and ideological ravings that cause pain, insecurity and failure. Sánchez and his party, now irrational and fanaticized, with a government of separatists, communists, terrorists, parasites and traitors, placed themselves at the vanguard of that ideology which generates violence and distress but which is already in full shipwreck because of its failure across the whole continent.
No one is going to help Sánchez, and soon he will not even arouse the pity of his hired guns and his «Charos» suckled by his media and his outlets paid for by everyone. That being so, his only way of surviving will be that of the dictator, of the bunkered dictator immersed in the total conflict of war on the opposition, society and freedom, and with ever more guilt on his back, now with no possibility of return to society. Bieito Rubido was right. He could have resigned and bet on trying to let time make people forget, or at least fade, his responsibilities in the profound existential crisis of Spain that he has so aggravated. He lost the opportunity and he will end badly, very, very badly. And it is not a threat at all. It is an obviousness.
Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.
