Michael Barone asks the question:
How to explain the rejection by American Democrats and British Labourites of center-left strategies that recently proved so successful?
…and while his answers are not bad I am struck by something that is not often addressed: to wit, one major reason why the center-left in the USA is so weak today is because it made the mistake of trusting the progressive wing of the Democratic party. In 2009 the progressives teamed up with the cynics running the Democratic Establishment and rammed through any number of proposals that would have made 1980s Democrats vomit in sheer disgust and embarrassment. Then the American voting public responded by purging the center-left from Congress and as many states as the voting public could manage.
And not having politicians around that can believably tell you that you’re screwing up? That’s going to be a factor in any kind of plausible rejection scenario. That’s just the way that it is.
Via Hot Air Headlines.
Moe Lane