When Adán Augusto López tries to expand the use of the concept “fascism” to close ranks with President Claudia Sheinbaum, he turns that category into a trinket, a fallacious scarecrow, and thus this senator in trouble believes that he is facing an obstacle to remain in the grace of the National Palace, unscathed and unpunished.
It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that the memory of Mussolini is brought up to justify circumstances, to resettle – demagoguery involved – in the established power. The last time I remember something similar was when they wanted to generate the dilemma “Echeverría or fascism”, against the backdrop of the crimes of Corpus Christi and the Falcons of the populist president who overwhelmed the country with his effective slogan “Up and forward.” The suggested paragon is no coincidence.
From the field of political science and the authentic anti-fascist struggle, the villainy of resorting, demagogically and utilitarianly, to the danger of fascism to defend the establishment with null arguments. Even the right in power has used this contradiction to pretend to be what it is not, like Vicente Fox, who in 2000 made falsely inclusive language fashionable based on his conservative nature. But this case is cooked separately.
If there was a risk in that sense, in any case it would be represented by people with the characteristics of Adán Augusto López who, along with many characters from the period before the installation of Nazi-fascism in Italy and Germany, became exponentially richer under the protection of power and violence with undeniable penal overtones.
The argument is so worn out that it did not even have an impact, as the senator would have wanted to ingratiate himself with the president. But it is undoubtedly relevant to offer a few lines to the matter. First of all, I affirm that it is the self-called Cuatroté that abandoned the national purpose of moving towards the consolidation of a democratic system for Mexico and this is similar to what happened in fascism.
I do not affirm that the transition was saved from unconcealable debts, which ruined the existing parties, and led to a new ruling party with desires for superlative hegemony, which would envy the most solid PRI presidentialism, and brought us by leaps and bounds closer to a regime with monolithic ambitions, typical of the arch-authoritarian and destructive systems without more than what existed, without ensuring that the “new” is better.
An example: Cuatroté has brought us excessive overrepresentation in the Congress of the Union that gives MORENA qualified majorities to reform the Constitution at will. This was done at the very high cost of an authoritarian coup, outside the law, resorting to the grotesque corruption of obtaining a definitive vote in the person of the traitor senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez. This reminds us of the way of doing politics and imposing itself by force that Nazi-fascism resorted to; not a demonstration in the capital’s walled Zócalo, as if it were the farmhouse for the president’s rallies.
There is also an institutional destruction, which I will not go over, in matters of criminal law, transparency and human rights, because the most important thing is that the policy of adversaries has been made the guideline of the current government. They seek at all costs the absolute annihilation of opponents and dissidents; It is the Morenoist hegemony and that seems beyond doubt to me, and it would be related to what Adam Augusto calls fascism. A State is being built in which the ten or twenty richest people in the country increase their accounts while legitimizing welfare and surveys become increasingly stronger.
That is why I consider Adán Augusto López’s opinion despicable and a base resource to be admitted to the palace, with no other support than his link with López Obrador, who said he would not lie, but overlaps the main political partner of the sweeper Tabasco.
A thinker who analyzed fascism in his time said that misused it generates a theoretical disorder, and here a real disaster in the official discourse.