"These people, those of us who say 'que els bombin', have awakened a new feeling." This has been warned by Xavier Trias. And he then recalled that his philosophy has always been one of non-confrontation and dialogue, to finish off: "But when you find yourself in front of people who want confrontation and who don't want dialogue, we must get them off the donkey once and for all". Again, a moderate sees that it is the unionist theorists who separate the most and who push many Catalans to confrontation (if possible, intelligent).
This is the great inconsistency and the great error of the Socialists with the Collboni operation in Barcelona. A maneuver that belies his rhetoric of moderation and the desire to break with the blocs, with a desperate agreement for power, which the whole world has seen mix (without a program) churras with merinos. In other words, people who until literally two days ago were called "ultra-right" (Sánchez dismisses the PP as this and Vox as "ultra-ultra-right") or "dangerous communists", in the case of the PP, the commoners that they have now returned to plug the municipal government, again with the socialists.
This is a mistake with serious consequences. Myopic irresponsibility. In general, due to the erosion of the image of politics. Trias's “que us bombin a tots” is what many people find politicians think of the electorate. They perceive (and feel) that they do not mess up when doing what is convenient for them, once voted. Later, when the citizens do not vote, disappointed, they still call them irresponsible, when they are the great irresponsible. But the operation is also a mistake on two other specific fronts.
In a Catalan key, it is an invitation to return to the blocs, hand in hand with conciliatory theorists (socialists and commoners). From the PP, that rhetoric is already known. And the independentistas could practice it with respect to "those of 155", but by the way of the facts, they had already jumped all the sanitary cordons with the PSC, at convenience. Now, on the other hand, the independence movement cannot pretend that it does not see what happened nor can it reduce it to an anecdote. They have been invited again to the clash.
Finally, there is the electoral miscalculation of the Socialists. In Spain they already knew that it was difficult for their "if you don't go, they'll come back" to materialize against PP and Vox. They trusted that in Catalonia it would help them to “sweep”. But in a policy that is more and more about generating states of mind, perhaps they have not sufficiently calculated the emotional effect on important layers of the country (independence or not) with respect to what they have done with Xavier Trias.
They have not hesitated to displace Trias, bonhomie and pactism in person. They considered that he could not be mayor so that electoral expectations in Spain would not harm them. But Sánchez could end up losing the Moncloa because of what he has done in Barcelona. Because, what is the message that the socialists send to Catalonia? A clear one. The answer should be up to par. And it will only be if sentiment moves action at the polls.
