Free Republic

The Organic Intellectuals1 incorporate themselves in the masses who blindly obey slogans without measuring the consequences. They are losing the election and reason. The struggle for power has characteristics which on occasion result in the loss of reason and in an abstraction of reality typical of totalitarian thought. Defeat in an enormously competitive electoral process poses a challenge to the institutions of democracy, but also to the temper and responsibility of those politicians who, feeling themselves sure winners, come to be obligated to confront an adverse reality. The candidacy of Lopez Obrador was under construction as far back as...