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Kevork Oskanian
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This is some Soviet-style shit.
This book is blowing my mind right now.
After Biden and Starmer, political scientists will have to invent a new term for centrist politicians who help hard-right populists into power because they didn’t understand their time was up.
The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals.
Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
Wes Streeting will be to the UK's Labour Party what Kamala Harris was to the US Democrats.
Farage is a project by and for a certain billionaire elite.
Anyone aspiring to tackle him without clearly laying this out will be fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.