When societies do not react to the first signals of authoritarian populism in a leader, reality begins to be replaced by “the story”; That past and present description that does not coincide with the real and evident reality.
What comes to line are arbitrary and visibly toxic actions, which do not find resistance in the anesthetized society. That is “the story”; a political opioid that adulterated the facts.
The invention of reality is a distinctive feature of authoritarian cultures, left and right. Argentina did not react when Nestor Kirchner committed a true sacrilege against democratic culture: censor the prologue of the never written by Ernesto Sábato, one of the greatest Argentine writers and key member of the CONADEP, replacing it with a prologue aligned with the “story” K.
The society that then did not put the shout in the sky, is the one that ended the crack that suppurate political hatred and authoritarian culture. The swamp in which it is still bogged down today, now in a mud of another ideological color, but even darker and more viscous.
The Venezuelan society did not react to absurd descriptions of the history that Chávez made, in the case He had murdered “the Bogoteña oligarchy” headed by Francisco de Paula Santander, which he considered the origin of the opposition that faced him at that precise moment.
The company also did not react with the necessary stupor flow when its heir, Nicolás Maduro, had his conversations with Chávez turned into “little bird.” When he reacted, maturist Chavism was already a criminal and fraudulent dictatorship.
That lack of reaction to the absurd and falsification of history, allows the leaders of authoritative populism to advance several lockers, until reaching the immense paradoxes and flagrant contradictions.
In that locker, leaders and autocrats who self-perceive opposite poles are usually found. Trump questioned Maduro’s rude fraud destroying the scrutiny of the July 28 election. But four years earlier, the New York tycoon had resorted to a violent coup Putsch against Congress to destroy the choice that, just as Maduro four years later, had lost at the polls.
His revenge against Biden encouraged him to advance several lockers on the board of contradictions and inconsistencies, until Fidel Castro was found. He did it by announcing the deportation of millions of immigrants to whom he accused of committing robberies, murders and violations, being the only convicted president of American history. And he launched that mass accusation against poor people who tried to enter as far as work, the day before pardon American democracy.
In February 1959, as soon as he overthrew Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban leader gave the first sign that another dictatorship would fall to the dictatorship: the cancellation of the trial that acquitted the pilots accused of bombarding peasant villages in the Sierra Maestra.
The pilots claimed to have disobeyed the order of their bosses, throwing the bombs of their planes at sea and then returned to the base and simulate a mission fulfilled. Not obtaining evidence to prove the opposite, the court acquitted them. But Fidel Castro repudiated the verdict, ordered a new trial and made them condemn without evidence. Trump did the same, although by reverse and without violating the law because the presidents have the right to pardon.
In the act of Asunción, everyone applauded the massive sportsman of the poor who is also a mass pardon of the violent coup plotters who acted under their influence. A paradox that twists the arm to common sense.
In the solemn ceremony, only the melancholic look of Barron Trump contrasted with the prevailing euphoria. The crushed gesture of the president’s youngest son contributed the calm that his father’s speech was missing and collided with Elon Musk’s cartoon exaltation.
That Triston self -absorption seemed to express a desolate understanding of what I was living. Perhaps, probably, the reason was another, the sure thing is that Trump’s speech was plagued with shadows and paradoxes.
On the contrary, his speech in the Davos Economic Forum was logical and clear. “My message for all the companies in the world is simple: come to manufacture their products in the United States … if they do not, and are in their right, pay our tariffs.”
He pointed to the center of what he proposes to the global business and explained why, in his opinion, the idea is beneficial. That is the Davos forum. There, the protagonists of the businessman and the statesmen speak of economy. On the other hand, the Argentine President wasted the opportunity to bet on the political success of his ultra-conservatism exacerbated stand up.
He was wrong. In that scenario, his aggressive contempt exhibits to several minorities are not welcome. Milei attacked homosexuals, feminists, environmentalists, those who alert against climate change, “woke” and everything that does not fit the recalcitrant conservatism that professes with ostentatious fanaticism.
Milei unloaded his contempt for Western democratic culture forged in the 20th century. There were gestures of perplexity and stupor at the low audience. Some seemed not to believe that a president who self-percends liberal equates homosexuality with pedophilia.
In the forum in which Trump was accurate and pragmatic, Milei incurred the reactionary drifts of inquisitor profile that has the ultraconservative story, reaching the same locker of invention of reality that in Argentina previously occupied Kirchnerism.
It should not be ruled out that societies begin to arouse on time and those incursions into the dimension of the absurd, loaded with frightful proclamations, cease to be free to the leaders forged in authoritarian political cultures.
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