It is as if the Mexican political class had renounced the possibility of progress; as if, devoid of expectations or aspirations of genuine consequence, the only meaning left to it was simply to survive.
“Politics”, said Max Weber, “consists of a hard and prolonged penetration through tenacious resistance, for which passion and measure are required at the same time. It is completely true, and history proves it, that in this world the possible is never achieved if the impossible is not tried again and again. But to be able to do this you have to be not only a warlord, but also a hero in the simplest sense of the word. Even those who are neither one nor the other must arm themselves with that fortitude that allows them to withstand the destruction of all hopes, if they do not want to be unable to achieve even what is possible today.
In contrast, Mexican politics today consists of an indulgent and dull resignation to inconsequentiality. How is it that, in the face of the massive accumulation of bad results registered by the López Obrador presidency, his opposition fails to articulate an idea or an emotion that successfully calls for a battle? And how is it that a movement so agglutinated around the hope of transforming the country, as López Obrador was when he was in opposition, ended up becoming a government so prone to encouraging conformism?
Regarding the oppositions, it can be argued that they have not overcome the trauma of their defeat. They have lacked talent or adaptability. Even that they are in ruins, that they are afraid, that they are paralyzed by endless internal struggles. It must not be easy to have lost so much or so quickly. And López Obrador, despite his many flaws and weaknesses, is a tremendous adversary. How to reconstruct a notion of the future from such a weak position?
Regarding López Obrador, it is possible to say that when he gained power he lost his compass. That he always knew how to denounce problems very effectively, but he was never really prepared to take charge of them: lamplight in the opposition, darkness in the government.
