Are there many moderate democRATs left in the USA?
Unfortunately, Francisco Franco is still dead.
One need only look at the History of Spain and the latent influence of the KGC social effort prior to WWII to see what we have today.
Barcelona is still a heavy left area owing to the Communist effort, and is unlikely to change in any significant way.
Throughout the world, the left is getting lefter, and the right is getting righter. The left is eschewing old-fashioned progressivism for pure Maoism. The right is clinging to Burke’s and Locke’s ideal of a republic, but is coming to the conclusion that the only way to combat the left is with Pinochet/Franco/Milei-ism, which, to misquote an old Vietnam War phrase, is destroying the republic in order to save it.
Well, yes it is consuming the Spanish left, thus burning themselves out again... without a Civil War. Franco is dead, but the descendants who remember the consolidation of the country and expansion, staying out of WWII (even getting the KGB out of the country, not without losing the entire gold reserved of Spain to the KGB who stole it with the help of the “republicans” of the Spanish Communists!! It happened.)
Those conservatives and there are many, may very well take back power. There is no way that Spain will enlarge in power by this Sanchez (who is very much like the character Sancho Panza squire to Don Quixote in the novel)
Sounds like Spain is in much worse shape than we thought