Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“I recently had a conversation in Spain which reminded me of the more extreme ranges of American right-wing opinion. One claim was that under Franco, Spain was self-sufficient, producing everything for itself. Now Europe, apparently meaning the EU bureaucracy, had decided that the only thing Spain was for was tourism, shut down the mines and, presumably, factories. Now a majority of Spaniards worked in the tourist industry. … By his account, the Spanish government was trying to replace Spaniards with foreigners, largely Africans. … When I asked why the government would do that, the only answer was for votes. That raised the question of how fast the immigrants became citizens with the right to vote. I was told that that happened almost immediately, that the immigrants claimed they were miners, apparently a favored profession even though, according to him, the mines had been closed …” (06/11/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/what-the-european-right-believes