The biggest message is a political reaffirmation of the notion that when ‘you go woke you go broke’. Boris Johnson deserves credit for masterminding a Tory victory in the UK election (Get Brexit Done was a powerful slogan) but there is no doubt that his victory was given a large assist by the fact that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, veered so sharply to the left that Johnson merely had to click and point. Corbyn was the contemporary version of former Labour Party leader Michael Foot who was trounced by Margaret Thatcher in 1983. It was predictable then as it is now.
Michael Bloomberg is correct to express concern (as has Barack Obama). The slate of Democratic Party candidates running for the White House in 2020 have taken the party on a very sharp left wing trajectory (cancellation of student debt, medicare for all, wealth tax, very relaxed illegal immigration policies, reparations for slavery etc).
They have moved the center of gravity of the party beyond the locus of the political Goldilocks zone and while this may offer utility in the primaries, it will prove to be a toxic burden when the bigger case for the Oval Office is made in front of the entire nation as a whole.
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