November 22, 2019
How populism will change the electoral landscape
By Taylor Lewis
We're living in a populist moment. That is the contention of a number of journalists, thinkers, observers, panjandrums, and political invigilators.
From Washington to Warsaw, the West is seeing the postwar order of openness and flexibility challenged. A nascent nationalism is taking root, challenging the core precepts of liberal cosmopolitanism that have shaped social and economic policy since the Bretton Woods Conference concluded seventy-odd years ago.
That's the big picture. What it looks like electorally is a shuffling of alliances, a rejiggering of traditional constituencies. Loyalties are crossing border lines, almost literally.
In the U.K., working-class voters are putting their piddling fortunes behind the Tories, rather than their natural home in Labor. There is a concomitant reversing of field among the middle class, which is swapping blue kits for red. As Andrew Sullivan writes, "[t]he Tories now have almost twice as many working-class voters as Labour, which was founded to defend the working class!" This tracks with the Brexit vote, where 55% of rural residents cast a ballot to ditch the E.U.
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