It’s Not Class War, Arrogant

Teodoro León Gross argues in ABC that the PSOE-Sumar coalition frames the November 29 elections as a class struggle to prevent left-wing voters from scrutinizing their housing policy. His thesis: the problem is solved by building more homes, not capping prices.

Columnist **Teodoro León Gross** publishes an article in **ABC** titled "It’s Not Class War, Idiot," arguing that the Spanish left has turned the **November 29** election into a sarracena battle between good and evil. The central thesis is that this framing prevents left-wing voters from questioning what the author calls the failure of housing management.

## Sarracena Framing as Electoral Strategy

According to León Gross, left-wing voters are presented with November 29 as a duel between rentiers and those facing eviction, heirs and disinherited. The general strike called is read in the text as another element of that barricade: Is it with the Government on the right side of history or with the so-called far-right sphere?

The columnist supports his argument with **Jonathan Haidt** and his essay "The Righteous Mind," subtitled "Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion." The idea extracted is that projecting politics as a duel between good and bad cancels self-criticism and the possibility of conceding reason to the adversary.

## Eight Years in Power and the Housing Balance

The text places the **PSOE** and **Sumar** executive with eight years in power and rates its housing results as catastrophic. It argues that no roof is offered, but rather the sarracena complacency of being on the correct side, and that the real objective is to retain votes.

The underlying criticism is economic: according to the author, housing cannot be fixed by capping and freezing the market because that reduces supply, something that, he claims, has already occurred with approved decrees. The proposed solution is to build more houses, also in the face of immigration arrivals.

To support this, he cites **Jorge Galindo**, a sociologist he presents as pogre, and his essay "Three Million Homes. How to Move from Scarcity to Abundance." The conclusion drawn is that only houses solve the problem, not slogans.

## The Contradiction of Large Landlords

León Gross points out a paradox: some ministers and leaders of the left own several properties and, according to his writing, are large landlords. He mentions the Minister of Housing, attributing six real estate properties to her.

The article recalls that with **Rajoy** in government the problem was Rajoy, and now, with **Sánchez**, the problem is **Feijóo**, alluding to statements by the Minister of Housing. The author calls this displacement dishonest.

His final diagnosis is that a placebo protection is sold to vulnerable people in rental regimes while millions of people cannot access a home. He asks who will rent to a vulnerable person against their interests. The only solution contemplated is a robust public-private market.