‘Everybody’s lost but me,’ mutters a teenage Indiana Jones emerging from a cave in the middle of the desert to find that the boy scouts with whom he arrived have now disappeared without trace. Spain’s left-wing prime minister might be excused for thinking much the same. Relentlessly upbeat about the benefits of immigration, Pedro Sánchez now finds himself more or less alone in the European Union. And just when he was hoping that fellow progressive Kamala Harris would win the US election, he finds instead that he’s going to have to contend with Donald Trump.
‘We will work on our strategic bilateral relations and a strong transatlantic partnership,’ Sánchez said, presumably between gritted teeth, in his message of congratulation. It was left to his deputy prime minister Yolanda Díaz to say what he couldn’t: ‘Trump’s victory is bad news for everyone who understands politics as the means to improve lives rather than poison them with hate and misinformation.’
For some, Trump’s victory shows how ineffective the fight against fascism has been
And it’s not just the politicians.
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