Thursday, February 13, 2020

"Torn Apart by Cross-Currents Over Immigration and by Tensions Between Socially Progressive Urbanites and Traditionalist Working-Class Voters"

"In a piece last year in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Yascha Mounk noted the industrial, trade-union roots of European social democratic parties and how a reason for their decline 'is, quite simply, that fewer and fewer people are now ensconced in the milieus that gave birth to these movements in the first place.'
"With cultural issues supplanting economic issues in salience during the 21st century and the former sense of economic solidarity giving way, the old center-left parties had trouble pleasing all of their supporters, or even most of them."


Rich Lowry at Politico compares Bernie Sanders to Jeremy Corbyn.

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