The Coming Progressive Right
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
While the historical right, that of the Habsburg model, corporatist and clerical, clings to its remnants of power through local political bosses, a more insidious creature is emerging: the progressive right of the digital youth.
It is not a force for liberation, but rather the enforcer of an algorithmic puritanism that has transformed the classroom into a pocket-sized Inquisition tribunal.
These young people, who carry their cell phones like personal panopticons, are not rebels; they are the new watchdogs of a regime that despises them while granting them the illusion of moral superiority.
It is the minionization of the spirit: a mass desperately seeking a charismatic villain to serve and a scapegoat to cancel.
They have replaced hard data and scientific rigor with the fetish of identity, validating an authoritarian structure that uses tenderness to conceal what is rotten.
This new right wing doesn't need bayonets when it has students willing to denounce any teacher who dares to interrupt its lethargy with the aridity of real-world politics or thermodynamics, anthropocentrism or geopolitics. The system doesn't need to send the army into the square if it can send the "minion masses" to digitally lynch anyone who steps out of line.
"Repression" today means exclusion from the job market, social media blackouts, and the budgetary strangulation of intelligence.
The looming conflict will not be between progress and reaction, but between two forms of servitude.
On one side, the old order of personal loyalties; on the other, this consumerist vanguard that confuses empathy with censorship.
However, the awakening will be tragic.
In a Mexico where infrastructure is crumbling, pollution is devouring the future, and public administration is a prize for the incompetent, the Sultan algorithm will offer little solace.
Cell phones will be useless tools in the face of the harsh realities of manual labor and the scarcity they will inherit.
Digital courtiers are being cultivated for a world that demands engineers and critical thinkers.
While the political class smiles for the cameras, the intelligentsia silently drinks its hemlock, aware that the mirage of digital freedom is merely the prelude to a new and deeper darkness.
Gabriel Careaga exposed the university students of '68 not as romantic revolutionaries, but as aspirational individuals with a profound fear of downward mobility.
According to him, their "rebellion" was actually a tantrum to ensure the system guaranteed their place in the pyramid of privilege.
If we apply this lens to the progressive right (the digital ephebocracy), the scenario is terrifyingly cyclical. I hope they have time to escape.
Just as Robespierre ended up on the guillotine, this youth-dominated system could turn against the regime if it isn't "pure" or "tender" enough at any given moment.
