I can't understand why people vote for Nazis and populist scum :)
Vox has actually played it smartly this time around. They had a proper campaign in the agrarian hinterlands that didn't focus nearly as hard on immigration (hey, they are
required for agriculture) or the cranked-up-to-eleven icky ethnonationalist garbage they pull in the cities all day long. Chances are that's why their vote-to-seats ratio went through the roof.
If you saw the messages in the most rural parts of the country you'd think they'd be a very old school agrarian conservative party of the central european tradition (I mean,
they were defending the fiesta del cordero). Meanwhile, in the big cities, it's MENA/coup talk all day, every day; very much straight up LePen and AfD political firebombing. Two messages rolled into one party that only cares about power.
Vox knows fully well that people vote with their gut, so they are gaslighting the shit out of everybody in a moment of inflamed opinions with the connivance of a media avid for ratings. But this kind of strategy will only get you so far. I'm willing to bet they are reaching 2015 Podemos status. There's not a lot of space to keep growing from here for a party like Vox unless the PP collapses, which would be a cataclysm. It's also worth keeping in mind that they are going to find themselves in deep shit as corruption cases start piling up. Insurgent parties are not good at taking heat.
Rivera out Arrimadas in? Talk about falling upwards in a spiral of yells and lies. Although the king on the shit mountain is still shit...
Arrimadas has the benefit of not being botomless like Rivera. I don't think she'll repeat his mistakes. She understands the value of cynicism.
