Progressives are still so pessimistic, but why? The populist right can and will be defeated | Andy Beckett
From the US midterms to Brazil and Hungary, extremists are floundering yet the left still overestimates their power. Reality is on our side From Brazil to Hungary and Britain to the US, why are so many people so…
Source: The Guardian ·
From the US midterms to Brazil and Hungary, extremists are floundering yet the left still overestimates their power. Reality is on our side From Brazil to Hungary and Britain to the US, why are so many people so surprised by the right’s election defeats? Flávio Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, Reform UK, the Tories and a vast array of Republican candidates have all been rejected in national or local contests this year, even in usually reliably conservative Mississippi. Apparently impregnable incumbents and populist insurgents alike have been beaten, often by big margins. The supposedly ascendant global right has been out-organised, out-thought, outmanoeuvred and outnumbered. Yet each time this happens – which is more often than the usual gloomy narrative of our politics allows – many liberals and leftists absorb and share the good news almost with wonderment. Rightwing governments such as…