What Business Do Democrats Have in Barcelona?

Why would they cozy up to ‘global progressives’ in a faraway leftist enclave?

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at the Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona, Spain, April 18, 2026.

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We have fewer than 200 days to go before Democrats “definitely” win back the House and derail Trump 2.0. And yet some of them took a plane to Barcelona this past weekend to go widely off-message. Trumpeting an anti-MAGA global rollback, the participants in the “Global Progressive Mobilization” event joined Spain’s limelight-hogging Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. These token gringos, mind you, weren’t some fist-raising Democratic Socialist organizers; they were Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, Tim Walz, and Chris Murphy (although several of them appeared remotely).

This cross section of Democratic officials proved that they had unlearned the lesson they had been taught in 2024 about the danger of catering to excitable mobs of keffiyeh-clad activists.

JG

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Jorge González-Gallarza

Jorge González-Gallarza is is a senior coordinator for the Iberosphere and a senior fellow at the Center for Fundamental Rights, working out of its office in Madrid.

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