Vox frente a la historia

When a political group or organization embarks on the rewriting of history until making it unrecognizable to those who have specialized in its study, then historical accuracy becomes a political priority and civic duty a moral imperative. For some time now, the proliferation of myths and the scale of misinformation about the past have taken on a new dimension. The practice is nothing new. Now then: the squeezing of history for political purposes has once again been brought to the fore by demagogues of the extreme right, the same one that has made the history of the country one of the axes of its fight for cultural hegemony. Vox and its media and parahistorical ecosystems, often without training in the discipline and ignorant of its working methods, rewrite history starting with the conclusions and dig into the past to find (or invent) some kind of evidence in support of their interpretation. The historians in this volume, backed by a long professional career in the study and analysis of history, come up against interested attempts to put history at the service of an ultra-nationalist project. The book covers the fundamental milestones of the periods of history for which Vox feels a particular fondness (the Reconquista, the Hispanidad and the War of Independence), as well as those on which it has tried to mute its programs, writings and statements (the Civil War and Francoism). In addition, it addresses issues such as the symbolic apparatus, the apotheosis of the epic homeland or Vox's vision of the nation.