The Spanish electorate doesn’t like him at all, which, I suppose, explains why he has become the latest hero of the transnational elite.
Orange Man bad and all that.
The guy who just presided over the state-sponsored suicide of a rape victim? That guy? https://t.co/EGChOHYfi4
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 27, 2026
The Wall Street Journal gives us a glowing profile of Sánchez, explaining that he is leading the European charge against the Evil Orange Man, rallying the dying transnational elite to oppose Trump (and, of course, keep open borders and the flow of Muslim migrants into Europe).
MADRID—The war in Iran hadn’t even begun, and Spain’s prime minister had resolved to oppose it.
In the nerve center of Spain’s government, housed in a leafy compound in Madrid, aides to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez were reading intelligence reports last December, which assessed that President Trump was charting a course for war with Iran. As they analyzed the messy consequences for Europe’s energy supplies and economy, they already knew their boss would rail against it—loudly—whatever Trump’s reaction.
For the past year, most of Europe has walked on eggshells with Trump. Sánchez has been trialing an alternative tactic: the “Just Say No” theory of Trump diplomacy. He is betting the Western alliance will be healthier if America’s allies candidly air their disagreements with the president, rather than tiptoe around him.
As the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran spreads shock waves throughout the global economy, Sánchez, a telegenic 54-year-old Socialist, has adopted the simple slogan of “no a la guerra,” or “no to war.” Unlike others in Europe, he has refused to let the U.S. military use his country’s air bases for the war despite Trump’s anger.
Spain, rarely the center of gravity in European affairs, has become the standard-bearer for Europeans frustrated at the continent’s fear of standing up to a U.S. president. Trump’s threats on Greenland and the unpopularity of the Iran war with voters have brought more Europeans around to his position.
A man less generous than I might compare Sánchez to Justin Trudeau or Gavin Newsom—good-looking, always wrong, and on the side of Satan in all important matters.
The Spanish government and its partners openly state that the reason for legalising more than half a million migrants is to “defeat the far right.” This is literally weaponised demography. They took the most conspiratorial interpretation of the “Great Replacement” that is not…
— PanEuropeanMovement (@EuropeanPan) January 29, 2026
The Spanish government and its partners openly state that the reason for legalising more than half a million migrants is to “defeat the far right.” This is literally weaponised demography. They took the most conspiratorial interpretation of the “Great Replacement” that is not even shared by most far right parties, namely it being a coordinated elite plan to reduce the native European share of the population, and actually turned it into policy – while also bypassing parliament, I might add.
The socialist government is so grossly unpopular in Spain that it just legalized over half a million illegal aliens and put them on a path to citizenship with the explicit purpose of building a coalition to outvote conservatives, who are leading in the polls by a wide margin.
Some say we’re going too far, that we’re going against the current.
When did recognising rights become something radical? pic.twitter.com/ka1nNKHVUC
— Pedro Sánchez (@sanchezcastejon) January 30, 2026
In local elections, after Sánchez’s move, Spanish citizens spoke loudly and clearly that they were quite unhappy with their fine and compassionate PM, but of course, that doesn’t matter one little bit, does it? Because the general election in Spain will not happen for more than a year, and by then, hundreds of thousands of Muslim migrants will get their own reconquista.
And, as Beege wrote, the official number of 500,000 legalized migrants is a gross underestimate; the true number is likely 1.3 million. No debate. No discussion. Just a decision to fight the “far right” by importing new voters.
So OF COURSE Spain’s socialist PM is the new hero of the transnationalists in Europe. He is opposed to Orange Man, disdains his citizens and wants to replace them, and is working feverishly to destroy democratic rule.
What’s not to love?
Sánchez is pushing to build a network of left-wing politicians around the world—mirroring the cross-border club that right-wing nationalists have built, from Hungary to Argentina, with support from the White House. His office is trying to bring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) to a summit of international progressives in Barcelona next month.
Spain’s far-right Vox party has a strong chance of entering government as a junior partner of Spanish conservatives after elections next year, opinion polls suggest—a first for Spain since fascism.
Critics say Sánchez’s tilt to the left on many policies—including on migration, where he is proposing legal residency for hundreds of thousands of irregular immigrants—has helped the far right grow. Sánchez’s advisers say it’s better to follow demonstrably left-wing policies than to govern with no clear program, which they say has pushed more voters to the populist fringes in other parts of Europe.
Sánchez’s constituency is not the people of Spain, but the technocrats and universalists who believe “diversity is our strength,” and who despise the idea of the national state.
What’s particularly striking to me is how grossly unpopular the transnationalists are in Europe, and how little that actually matters in practice. Keir Starmer is despised, but his unpopularity and the mounting pressure to do something about migrants have made zero difference in practical terms.
In fact, Britons have made their views on immigration clear for nearly two decades, and both Labour and the Tories have just ignored the wishes of the electorate and flooded the country with a dangerous underclass. And when people complain, they get prosecuted for “hate speech” while Muslims preach murder in mosques.
🚨🇬🇧 Meanwhile in UK Mosques
Undercover reporting reveals Imams in Mosques all over the country, calling for the death of all Jews, their children and the destruction of Israel. pic.twitter.com/Eez2uzaxX0
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 27, 2026
European countries have responded to democratic discontent with censorship and repression, becoming ever more totalitarian.
So OF COURSE Sánchez is a hero to the European elites. He is everything they want to be.
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