Sánchez’s socialists, of course, the so-called human-rights community, the country’s paper of record El País (for which prioridad nacional is “a euphemism that uses two positive words to imply inequality, racism and xenophobia”). But almost as opposed to nationalism are a large part of the PP and much of the Catholic Church, where voters show signs of turning toward Vox. The Vox counterargument is that if there’s no prioridad nacional, there’s no nación. And that is because nations ask a certain special class of people—the citizenry—to sacrifice and even, if need be, to die for them. Without prioridad nacional, citizenship is not a blessing but a curse. Pedro Sánchez has been having a good run against the American nationalism of Donald Trump. Running against Spain’s own nationalism is, unsurprisingly, proving a harder task.
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/pedro-sanchezs-kingdom/ Pedro Sánchez’s Kingdom Progressive reign in Spain. by Christopher Caldwell Email Share Print Download In the middle of April, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez summoned the world’s leftist statesmen to Barcelona for what he called a Global Progressive Mobilization. There are not many leftist statesmen to choose from these days. But Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and Lula of Brazil rallied round Sánchez, and so did the representatives of activist philanthropies—Bill Gates’s people and George Soros’s, too. Various agitators came for environmental and sexual causes, with their earrings and keffiyehs and polyglot t-shirts. It was a coronation of sorts. Through an assiduous campaign of policy-shaping, speech-making, China-courting, and Trump-trolling, Sánchez has managed to identify himself to many non-Spaniards as the leader of the global opposition. What Trump explores, Sánchez deplores. Boss of the Socialist W...