Corbyn's Defeat Is a Warning Sign to the Left Everywhere [View all]
Yesterday’s election in Britain was Trump’s biggest international win since 2016 and the left’s biggest defeat this decade.
Boris Johnson won his election as a national populist in the manner of Donald Trump. He promised to bring hope to the forgotten white working-class communities of old industrial England.
Trump called him a “Britain Trump” when Johnson became prime minister in July. While Trump focused on immigrants from south of the U.S., Johnson focused on the need to stop, or slow down, the immigrants from Europe.
At his victory rally on the day after the election, Johnson spoke under a giant banner proclaiming “The People’s Government.” Like Trump and other nationalist populists in Europe, Johnson now fuses himself with “the people” and in their name can do what he wants.
Read more: https://prospect.org/world/corbyns-defeat-warning-sign-to-the-left-everywhere-uk-election/
(American Prospect)
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