A Message to the Far Right. From Spain, With Fire 🔥
A direct message from Spain’s Prime Minister to the far right. The kind of thing we need more of in the U.S.
I couldn’t stop thinking about this speech.
The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, stood up in front of Parliament and called out the far-right party Vox, directly and without euphemisms.
And as I watched it, I wasn’t thinking, “Why don’t we have leaders like this in the U.S.?”
Because we do.
AOC, Maxwell Frost, Jasmine Crocket, Pete Buttigieg, Katie Porter, Elizabeth Warren, Adam Schiff, and others have been saying this.
But I think the problem is that not enough people are hearing them.
A lot of Americans are tuning out completely. And mainstream media too often treats the far right like just another side in a political debate, instead of exposing the very real danger they pose to our democracy. They’re not asking the right questions and letting this regime control the narrative and twist the truth however they please.
That’s why this speech hit me so hard. It reminded me how powerful it can be to say the quiet part out loud. No hedging. No softening. Just calling things what they are.
🎥 Watch the speech I subtitled here:
Transcript (as delivered by Pedro Sánchez):
I listen to you and think, “But how much hatred do you exude towards foreigners who live in Spain and work and contribute to the economic growth of our country?”
And what admiration do you have for the oligarchs who work from abroad to destroy Europe and against the interests of Spain?
Ladies and gentlemen, what threatens the prosperity of Spain and Europe is not immigration, but tariffs on agriculture and industry, the ones you are silent about.
What threatens, what threatens the democracy of our country, is not immigration that threatens the democracy of our country.
It’s those techno-oligarchs for whom you roll out the red carpet and who work for you, spreading hatred on social media, who threaten our society, our coexistence.
It’s not immigrants, it’s governments like Orbán’s, which yesterday banned demonstrations by LGBTQ groups in Hungary, or what you do by trivializing and denying gender violence.
What threatens, what threatens our security is not immigration.
What threatens our insecurity are denialist governments like the one you are supporting in Valencia, which deny scientific evidence, technical advice and amplify the drama of climate emergency catastrophes like those we experienced in Valencia last October.
The real threat, ladies and gentlemen, to Europe and Spain is this far-right international organization working from the outside to destroy Europe from within, and whose branch in Spain is you and your party.
A Bit More Context: Who Is He Talking To?
Pedro Sánchez was speaking to Santiago Abascal Conde, leader of the far-right wing political party Vox, Spain’s far-right party. If you haven’t heard of them before, think of them as Spain’s version of MAGA Republicans, but with even less subtlety.
They openly oppose immigration, deny gender-based violence, push anti-LGBTQ+ policies, and admire authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán.
But here’s the thing: Vox isn’t just a problem in Spain.
They’ve positioned themselves as a kind of international HQ for the global far right. They host summits, fund campaigns, and build ideological alliances with extremists across Europe, the Americas, and beyond. They’ve aligned themselves with Orbán in Hungary, Trump’s movement in the U.S., and far-right figures across Latin America.
This isn’t just about national politics anymore.
It’s about a coordinated effort to undermine democracy by scapegoating immigrants, attacking gender equality, and painting “patriots” as the victims of some imagined globalist elite. It’s the same fear-mongering playbook we see from Project 2025 here in the U.S., just with a different accent.
We’re not dealing with isolated right-wing factions anymore. This is a transnational movement. And Vox is at the center of it.
That’s why Sánchez’s speech matters. He wasn’t just confronting a local opponent; he was exposing an international threat that we also need to take seriously right here at home.
If this speech also lit a fire in you, let’s talk about it.
What stood out? What questions does it raise for you? What do you want more people to hear?
Drop your thoughts in the comments; I really want to hear them.
I can see now that it’s a worldwide capitalist, theocratic, white ultranationalist technocratic movement. It’s not a takeover of the US. It’s a takeover of the world.
Spain is familiar with autocracy. Many Spaniards remember Franco and the wounds from the Spanish Civil War that have not healed because they have been buried, literally. No one talks about it. It's as if it did not happen. I think this has been changing, slowly.