There may have been political analysis to that bent, but that still doesn’t make the assasination of Carrero Blanco something I’d call “good” within hearing of most of the spaniards who were grown-ups at the time. I know communists and anarchists of long standing who would have been happy to execute the murderers with their own hands, due to said murderers’ claims that if the admiral had gone to the later Mass and his car had fallen on a lot of kindergartners, they would not have regretted the death of a bunch of “little burgueoises” at all.
And those political analysts are missing an important detail which happens to be in your own quote, as well as insulting the admiral: Juan Carlos was already the official succesor. If he had told Carrero Blanco “cut me this knot”, the admiral would have saluted and taken out his pocket knife to do exactly that. Instead it was Adolfo Suárez* who earned the nickname “His Majesty’s Scissors” when he cut the knot that Franco thought he’d left “tied, and tied tightly”.
Described as “such a nice boy, and so involved in the Movement!” when he married my grandma’s cousin. My not-in-the-Movement relatives were laughing their asses off when Suárez went a-cutting.
well ok the actual discussion was would we be better off if the top 3 or 4 in the line of succession in our government were eliminated …but the debate was whether it would make things better or not …
In a democracy if the elected leader is really so god-awful that an assassination really would be better, there are ways to remove that god-awful monster legally. If the problem is that the monster’s political party controls everything and won’t use the legal levers to remove that monster from power, then the problem isn’t the monster, the problem is the political party that has placed the monster in power. If they’re all backing the monster despite his monstrosity, then whoever succeeds the monster is going to be a monster himself.
However as far as the source of your misinformation, were you perhaps a fan of pulp writer Robert E. Howard :)? He actually wrote some decently Conanesque historical fiction. In fact the comic book character Red Sonja started out as one Red Sonya* from his story about the 1529 siege of Vienna.