In Britain, the elitism and the populism are the right way round.
Conservative elitism delivers Theresa May rather than Boris Johnson or even Andrea Leadsom, while Labour populism delivers Jeremy Corbyn rather than David Miliband or even Owen Smith.
That correctly reflects the twin poles of British politics.
But in America, the elitism and the populism are the wrong way round.
Republican elitism would have delivered any of a dozen perfectly plausible possibilities, while Democratic populism would have delivered Bernie Sanders.
Instead, however, the world has to watch and wonder whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is going to be inflicted upon us.
That correctly reflects the twin poles of British politics.
ReplyDeleteNo it does not! The twin poles of British politics as everyone now acknowledges were correctly reflected in the Leave and Remain campaigns.
The ghosts of two new parties began to take visible shape in those campaigns, which crossed party lines.
They are the twin poles of British politics.
As you yourself say, that had nothing to do with party politics. But my point would still stand. May is a neoliberal globalist, and Corbyn isn't. Like Cameron and Blair before her. Like Benn before him.
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