Thursday, January 16, 2025

The Left is more unpopular than any time since the Cold War

Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, The Telegraph has assessed. The analysis comes after a year of election triumphs for conservatives around the world, crowned by Donald Trump's election as US president. Right-wing groups emerged as the worldwide winners after more than 1.5 billion people voted in more than 70 countries in 2024, the most on record in a single year. Leftist parties suffered a record low average vote share of just 45.4 per cent in each democracy's latest election, according to Telegraph analysis of elections in 73 democracies. In Western Europe and the US, Left-wing parties secured just 42.3 per cent of the vote while the Right won 55.7 per cent, which represents the widest gap in vote share since 1990.

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"The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon," Prof Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, said.

Jeremy Cliffe, the editorial director and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said the global turn to the Right was the result of three interconnected trends: "The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite."

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... The analysis comes after a year of election triumphs for conservatives around the world, ...

Yup.

From what I've seen on the European news feeds I watch, the trend there seems to be mainly because of xenophobia, i.e., immigrants.


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-16 08:13 PM

How many cancer patients do you know who hate government benefits keeping them alive? All these conservatives will be clammoring for benefits when it is they who dwi; be desperate and I sincerely want them to be there if they do need them. My question is; who do you not want them to be there for? Well, one more question: Are you comfortable?

#2 | Posted by danni at 2025-01-17 06:32 AM

11 / 5/ 24

biggest shift to the right since 1980.

#3 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-17 06:34 AM

From what I've seen on the European news feeds I watch, the trend there seems to be mainly because of xenophobia, i.e., immigrants.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

"Trump's return to power fueled by Hispanic, working-class voter support"

www.reuters.com

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-17 06:42 AM

the trend there seems to be mainly because of xenophobia, i.e., immigrants.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

Italy prime minister Giorgia Meloni had a Muslum iman from Pakistan deported recently.

xenophobia....right ?

uh....that would be a no / ...more like a real leader protecting the people she won the right to protect.

the iman had been telling his "flock" that they must "destory the infidel " or face "catastrophic consequences."

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-17 07:16 AM

let's go texans / ravens / eagles and commanders.

** betting choices are for entertainment only.

( yeah....riiiiight )

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-17 07:17 AM

The Left is more unpopular than any time since the Cold War

Well, the Left has definitely been getting on my nerves lately. With the crap it spews.

Not enough for me to vote GOP. Maybe if the GOP returned to fiscal conservatism and stayed out of social stuff that would be a viable option. But that won't be, because they really need the Talibaptist vote.

#7 | Posted by censored at 2025-01-17 10:49 AM

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