A coup is a coup, even when Spain's politicians just playact one

Institutional pantomime: when a coup is just noise

Spanish politics has once again turned the parliamentary chamber into a vaudeville stage. While public opinion swings between alarm and cynicism, the facts suggest that the supposed coup is nothing more than a choreography designed to divert attention from everyday governance. The institutional deadlock, far from being a state crisis, is perceived as a diversionary maneuver in which institutions function more as a propaganda machine than as organs of government.

The theater of the absurd in Congress

The official narrative about political instability seems to ignore the growing skepticism of citizens who see these tactical moves as a rerun of familiar scripts. There is speculation about the fate of political elites, suggesting that at the slightest hint of real danger, emergency exits abroad would already be prepared. This distrust is not gratuitous: it feeds on the perception that the current political system is a sclerotic structure, where the actors merely repeat sterile confrontational rhetoric while the country's structural problems remain untouched.

The erosion of trust and the story of the Transition

There is a current of thought that points directly at the generation of the Transition (Spain's move to democracy after Franco) as responsible for the current state of institutional prostration. They are branded traitors and classists, arguing that their legacy has not been stability but a cancer eating away at the public administration. The coup thus becomes an empty term, a label used to discredit the adversary while hiding the inability to actually govern. Politics has been reduced to an exchange of accusations where the term "far right" or the shadow of historical figures serves to cover up the lack of economic and social solutions.

In the end, the question that remains is whether this constant noise is a deliberate strategy to normalize paralysis or whether we are simply witnessing the collapse of a model that no longer knows how to govern itself without resorting to hyperbole.

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