AARON HANSCOM: Elon Musk Was Right: Pedro Sánchez Is a Traitor.
Search for “traitor” on X this week, and one man will flood your timeline: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
The reason? Shocking images of thousands of migrants from Morocco crossing the border and flooding into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. The head of the association that represents Spain’s Civil Guard officers in Ceuta told the Associated Press that the border had “totally collapsed.” After watching video footage of migrants breaking through fences to get into the city, one would be justified in using the word “invasion” to describe what’s happening. Indeed, Santiago Abascal, the leader of the rising populist/conservative Vox party, called it just that and wrote that “Pedro Sánchez is its main promoter and guilty of all its consequences.”
The migrants don’t disagree. Video footage captured some of the arrivals chanting, “Viva Pedro Sánchez!” or “Long live Pedro Sánchez!”
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UPDATE: Old and busted: Can Greeks Become Germans?
—Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times, July 19th, 2011.
The New Hotness? Spain has become France:
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