Forty-eight hours after the serious incidents that took place in Virginia, where a young white man drove into a group of anti-fascist demonstrators, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in the midst of strong pressure from his own country, finally condemned the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Trump, who started with a generic condemnation of the violence from both sides after the murder of a woman in Charlottesville, dragged under the vehicle, has shown during these hours that he is not only an unpopular politician who divides society, but that his values are not at the level of the important position that he occupies.
Whilst we have recently seen, through different images, the White House oval office undergoing refurbishment, we've witnessed a whole metaphor of what this scene really implies. The most important office in the world is, in those images, empty, as its tenant works overtime transferring to the world a presidential image that is inappropriate, frivolous, vulgar, sexist, and loads of other things. Even the most critical of president Obama can only acknowledge that between the former president and Trump there is, above all, a great divide: the difference between a president so far removed from minimum democratic values that he doubts whether to condemn racism and Nazi actions, and a president, with loopholes in his mandate, but very aware of what it meant to hold the post of president of the United States.
The indiscriminate use of the word Nazi in Spanish politics, especially as a result of the Catalan government's decision to push ahead with the referendum of 1st October, where politicians and important media have referred in this way to members of the Catalan Executive and leaders of Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes), has led to sections of the Spanish press also describing the incidents in Virginia as confrontations between radical groups, without clarifying who is to blame. A total paradox: those were real Nazis - not those who defend a referendum - and everyone in the world could see that from the word go. With the post-truth, you have these things.