In that case, it makes no sense to call them that, because that would mean assuming that López Obrador defends a radical left ideological program. This is very far from reality. An ideology is a body of ideas consistent with each other. The president lacks such a thing: beyond energy sovereignty, a certain historical nationalist conscience, a predilection for the popular and a vulgar moralism, the president does not raise any ideological program.
It is enough to read the books he has published to realize this. He cites authors left and right without any consistency: José Martí, the Old Testament, Julio Scherer García, Ricardo Flores Magón, Pope Francis, Aristotle, Silvio Rodríguez, Engels, Machiavelli, Alfonso Reyes…
In addition, the president has been, to say the least, flexible in his convictions against neoliberalism, influentialism and that of “separating political power from economic power.” Proof of this are the budget cuts to key institutions for the construction of a welfare state, as well as his good relationship with Carlos Slim and other Mexican oligarchs.
On the other hand, dividing the official coalition between hard-liners and moderates does not contribute to the analysis of our political reality in a more pragmatic sense. Both categories refer to a grouping. In such a way that the hard-liners would be an articulated political group, with the capacity for collective action and a certain esprit de corps, and the moderates would be another unit with the same characteristics.
Neither of the two supposed groups has these characteristics. For example, as is known, there were tensions and grids between Tatiana Clouthier and Marcelo Ebrard, despite the fact that both were considered part of the moderate wing of the cabinet. Likewise, last year, in the 2021 elections, the clashes between the two strongest pre-candidates for the governorship of Guerrero, Félix Salgado Macedonio and Pablo Amílcar Sandoval, reached unsuspected dimensions, although both were part of the supposed hard block of Morena.
This being the case, what there is within the official coalition is not a struggle between hardliners and moderates, but a stark struggle for power, marked by abjection, flattery, nepotism and lack of scruples.
