(The persistence of a political tradition. The liberal-conservative footprints in the La Nación diary in 1955 and 2015)

Abstract

In recent years, rights have been addressed by numerous approaches from the social sciences. This work proposes to reconstruct the continuities in the readings that the newspaper La Nación, as an expression of the conservative-liberal right, built at the beginning of Macri’s government and in the coup of 1955. This hypothesis does not mean that the stage of Macrism is the linear continuity of the dictatorship of 1955 or that the newspaper La Nación simply reproduces the arguments put forward in this framework, but rather that in the reading of certain key actors in the ideological field there are founding traditions of the political positions that are reactivated in the different junctures. The main objective then is to realize that the interpretations produced in 2015 do not constitute a novelty but are part of the formation of a liberal discourse and rhetorical argumentative memory that can be reconstructed with comparative analysis.