My super conservative in-laws in Spain are all flustered by this! They think these people are being paid and that they are armed and dangerous and out to pillage, kill, and raze the country.
Spain is weird in that their Fascist dictatorship wasn’t overthrown by a Revolution like next door Portugal but instead those in power decided themselves to let go of power (after making themselves stupidly rich and then passing some laws to make themselves immune from prosecution for all they did), so IMHO the right-wing there has always been pretty Fascist-adjacent because certain things weren’t cleaned up.
The sons and daughters of the Fascist elites too created their own political party in next door Portugal - currently in power - but it’s ideology was never this weird moralist know-your-place “conservativeness” that you see in traditional Fascism.
My super conservative in-laws in Spain are all flustered by this! They think these people are being paid and that they are armed and dangerous and out to pillage, kill, and raze the country.
Spain is weird in that their Fascist dictatorship wasn’t overthrown by a Revolution like next door Portugal but instead those in power decided themselves to let go of power (after making themselves stupidly rich and then passing some laws to make themselves immune from prosecution for all they did), so IMHO the right-wing there has always been pretty Fascist-adjacent because certain things weren’t cleaned up.
The sons and daughters of the Fascist elites too created their own political party in next door Portugal - currently in power - but it’s ideology was never this weird moralist know-your-place “conservativeness” that you see in traditional Fascism.