US Democrats do not suffer alone. Their woes echo an across-the-board failure by centre-left parties to articulate a persuasive alternative vision to the fearmongering, racism and jingoistic pseudo-patriotism of increasingly extreme and intolerant rightwing forces.
To their infinite shame, Israeli voters have just empowered a Jewish supremacist party. This disgrace was facilitated by the implosion of Labor and Meretz on the left. “Israel is now on the verge of a rightwing, religious, authoritarian revolution, whose goal is to decimate the democratic infrastructure on which the country was built,” the Haaretz newspaper warned.
In Italy, France and Hungary, too, far-right parties dominated recent election debate, exploiting irrational fears about security, national identity and immigration. The traditional left collapsed. In Britain, third-rate demagogues use the language of war to deplore a migrant “invasion”. Yet Labour’s opposing narrative fails to convince.
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