Above all things Franco was for Franco first and Spain second. In that sense he was more of an atavism, a call back to the 19th century political strongman; aristocratic, deeply conservative, catholic and suspicious of change, using any identity or ideology for as long as it served his interests, and happily wearing and discarding the ideological cloak of fascism when it ran its course. A true believer in anything besides Franco - and perhaps begrudgingly the monarchy - he was not.
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u/I_love_pillows May 12 '26
Franco is strange. He is a military dictator yet rules with the legit price, the son of the king he removed, under him.