It was not a small thing, it was something minor compared to what she represented: with the political weight of her surname, her links with a certain business community, with her image of a northern lady between anger and frankness. That a sampetrina of her roots enthusiastically joined a “plebeian rebellion” was still a paradoxical but significant contribution. It helped soften it, make it palatable, even give it an air of rebellious legitimacy – or elitist validation, depending on where you look at it – for sectors of the electorate that might otherwise have been more reluctant to see their candidate as a viable alternative.
In any case, Clouthier knew how to take advantage of what he was and what he represented, to help sell the “4T” product. Once that goal was achieved, however, he had to deal no longer with the “dream” or the “promise” but with the reality of what he had sold. And there, bad business, the costs were always greater than the profits. What did she get in her two-and-a-half years as Deputy; in her little more than a year and a half as Secretary of the Economy? Why will she be remembered her in one instance or another? Much more is known about the disappointments that she had to endure (because of Bartlett, the cancellation of the airport, militarization or the commercial controversy within the framework of the T-MEC) than of the specific achievements that she accumulated during these four years.
(Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro/Daniel Augusto Sánchez Moreno)
That is the impression that remains, that of a busy but lacking woman, with initiative but without direction, who bet a lot on a six-year term that she passed through unnoticed and from which she retires prematurely. And no, the problem is not that Tatiana Clouthier only did what she could; it’s that she didn’t want to pay the price of doing more or giving up pretending she could do anything else. Between the talk of her resignation and the rambling interviews she has given since then, she exudes not the satisfaction of a duty fulfilled but the affliction of disappointment.
