Conor Lynch on the Trajectory of US/UK Liberalism

Conor Lynch said:

It has been over a week since the U.K. election that left the political establishment reeling in Britain and around the world. And though Prime Minister Theresa May will remain in office — for now — Jeremy Corbyn was correct when he said last week that the election had “changed the face of British politics.”

The snap election that was supposed to have crushed Corbyn — and the Labour Party — once and for all has instead re-energized the British left, while throwing serious doubt on the Conservative Party’s future. When Theresa May arrogantly called the election in April, polls indicated that her Conservative Party would win by a historic landslide, and the British press — which has been fiercely against Corbyn since he was elected as leader of the Labour Party two years ago — ran giddy headlines predicting the death of his party. There was no doubt whether May and the Tories would win a majority; it was only a matter of how massive that majority would be.

But if we have learned anything over the past year, with the election of U.S. President Donald Trump and the “Brexit” referendum result last summer, it is that absolutely nothing is certain in this populist age. May was expected to “Crush the Saboteurs,” as the Daily Mail’s front page read after her announcement in April, but instead she ended up crushing her own party, which lost its majority in the House of Commons after leading by more than 20 points just a month earlier.

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Surrealistik said:

Sorry, centrist liberals, the politics of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn are the progressive path forward - Salon.com

Brilliant summary of the internal shifting tide in UK and US modern day liberalism, and the conflict within between its establishment/neoliberal and progressive wings.

Couldn't fit the apparent title of the article as it was far too long.

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Captain Adverse said:

IMO this is more of an example of how arrogant presumption does not beget success, rather than a popular swing to progressive ideology.

That's what happened with Hillary Clinton and her "shoe-in" predictions from her supporters and the MSM.

I believe that's what also happened to Ms. May.

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