From the Financial Times 22 March 2026 The populist, anti-immigration party is surging in the polls thanks to the support of young Spanish men, Vox leaders have found that old-school conservative preoccupations such as bullfighting have lost much of their importance. Instead, Vox has learnt to exploit men’s deep-seated economic and social grievances, which have become the defining feature of a new strain of Spanish populism. Young women still lean to the left, but there has been a striking shift among males: they identify as being more rightwing than any other cohort of young men in the past 40 years. Many see themselves as victims of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his policies on the economy and immigration. While Sánchez celebrates Spain growing faster than any other major advanced economy in the past two years, young men complain that their personal hopes have been frustrated. Stoking their discontent are a band of populist rap artists and fa...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51