Neither left nor right: the worst of both worlds

Julio Patán / Malos Modos / Opinión El Heraldo de México
Julio Patan / Bad manners / Opinion The Herald of MexicoCredits: Special

Recently, people far more equipped for these tasks than I have made a great effort to define what our president is in terms of political positioning. With your permission, I will try to define what it is not.

He is not a neoliberal. I would like it to be. I understand the lure of irony: the tropical champion of anti-neoliberalism has fooled you, Chairman, with crude rhetoric and spending cuts. And yes, he fooled a lot of people. But hacking the budget on the one hand and spending a fortune on useless things like Dos Bocas or AIFAon the other hand, it has nothing to do with the desire to thin out the public in order to fatten the private, but rather blow up the state in order to turn it into an exaggerated property of the caudillos.

In this sense, he is, by God, not a social democrat who respects the free market, but at the same time supports the causes of progress. It never happened, of course, but at this point you have to be really very limited, or very cynical in a very limited way, to support such nonsense. The president takes in some businessmen out of the blue and at the same time blames pharmaceutical companies, breweries, the ambitious middle class, and clean or dirty energy companies, but privately, while creating semi-public enterprises at close range.

Of course, he is also not the hot-tempered defender of the poor, as Zepeda suggests, who else, who in this week’s column is trying to convince us that while the presidential ways are inadequate, the leader is driven by his love for the underprivileged, a love so intense that it has corrupted his character. . It’s really nonsense to go back to the same thing over and over again, but yes: it’s a six-year sentence for children with cancer left to fend for themselves, a money-saving Cuban vaccine, bankrupt public hospitals, and, soon, of the 15 million people who stopped receive medical services; the poor population left in the hands of drug dealers; one of the women without an aescuinculus crèche; the one with over four million new poor, go.

I also do not think that the president is a model of far-right conservatism. In a recent essay, Pablo Maylouf invites us to abandon the categories of left and right when talking about the graduate and understand him more as a destroyer of the letter, fed by what feeds all great destroyers: resentment. I agree, and I agree that this makes him a man of his time, in which the tinsel is cool. Bolsonaro and Trumpist preferences coexist with Evo’s poverty, Cuban-style corporate militarism, and hyper-statism with a touch of Chavistism. The worst of both worlds, therefore, is to appeal to a common place.

JULIO PATAN
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Source: Heraldo De Mexico

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