Had he lived for a couple of years longer, Rafael Chirbes would have totally been one of us. Already in 2006, he was pointing out in his diaries that progressives had gone completely nuts. They defend radical Islamists, praise women in hijabs, yet are completely opposed to Catholics who are anti-abortion? That makes no sense, he says.
Chirbes was a person of deeply conservative sensibilities. The destruction of the old ways of life by modernity was something that he perceived as a profound wound.
The writer was from a very working-class family. Having any affinity whatsoever for the working classes ends up making you conservative because progressivism is extremely cruel precisely to this class of people.
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