[The European Conservative] The Spanish Right Was Doomed From the Start

To defeat the ruling far-Left, PP and VOX should have run as a bloc instead of against one another.

On Sunday around midnight, with the last few locales vote-counting Spain’s way to a hung parliament that virtually no poll had predicted, I sat dejected on the backseat of a jam-packed Uber van rolling through downtown Madrid. A two-month inebriating spell of gung-ho eagerness, giddy stumping, and the complacency bred by in-the-bag forecasts was screeching to a halt. The verdict was proportionately sobering. However unpopular most polls had gauged it to be (as well as our own gut feeling and — yes — our sense of moral decency), Europe’s leftmost government perhaps wouldn’t come to an end after all. Aside from PM Pedro Sánchez’s ghastly guile and cunning, the deep drivers behind this electoral shock remain shrouded in mystery. If four years of pledge-breaking deals with secessionists, nonstop neo-Marxist cultural hegemony, left-globalist social engineering, and constant assaults on Spain’s constitutional unity hadn’t swung the election our way, then what could? The last hope to halt my country’s lurch to the abyss, in other words, had just withered away abruptly. Four years from now, there probably won’t even be a Spain — as we know it — to speak of.

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