Obradorismo: The use of the past to gain power and legitimize authoritarianism

The past has been the greatest resource to legitimize the authoritarian drift begun in 2018 with the triumph of López Obrador; forty years after the presidential election that led Carlos Salinas to the presidency and that meant the starting point for the modernization of the economy and the transformation of electoral institutions, culminating in the political reform of 1996 and the beginning of democratic normalcy. 2018 marked the closure of th…