Is It Possible To Be Left Wing And Embrace Political Pragmatism, Populism and Opportunism At The Same Time?
To become and remain electorally successful, the Democrats in America and the Labour party in Britain must learn, practice and master the dark arts of the beguiling the voters.
We live in uncharted territory. In modern American history, it’s completely unheard of for a former president to remain as powerfully relevant and dominant as Donald J. Trump. There isn’t a single day that goes by that there isn’t some headline or story on Biden’s predecessor; We could be forgiven for thinking that Trump is still leader of the free world.
Even though Trump lost the presidency by nearly 7 million votes last November, one is left with the abiding impression that he is still running the show in a strange kind of way; a shadow government of sorts, in which current Republican senators and members of congress are courtiers, willing and very happy to do the bidding of the exiled King.
The momentum that President Biden built up in his first few weeks and months of his administration, when he signed the Covid relief package, gave a speech in Pennsylvania announcing the $2.2 trillion infrastructural initiative seem to have completely dissipated.