What if the Mexican right is not non-existent, it's just lost? In a country where assuming himself as a conservative seems not to be an option, and where even the parties that once boasted of being so now simulate progressive ideologies, this book poses a necessary provocation: the right survives – disguised, demobilized, shamed – but is more present than it seems. The author digs up his story, his fractures, his fears and his potential futures. With rigor and sharpness, he exposes how political opposition to the party in government fails to finish tuning, how liberalism without adjectives stopped exciting, and how old labels continue to shape national politics, even if everyone says they no longer serve.
Halfway between the political essay, the generational chronicle and the ideological map, this book is a guide to understanding not only the vacuum of the opposition, but also the signs of a new right in formation. Its pages offer clues to thinking about what is coming: democratic disenchantment, the mutations of liberalism, authoritarian nostalgia and the battle for the soul of the country. There are no easy lessons or obvious outings. But yes a certainty: ignoring the right for believing it extinct is the best way for it to come back with more strength.