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In response to
"I agree there's nothing systematic and a hustler nearly became Veep on the Dem side"
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Reagen
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Add Brexit to the list. The thing I'd say is that in the 1990s, the left side of politics realised that if it was going to get elected it had to be
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Jan 31 '18, 09:32
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responsible economic managers. So you had politicians like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton bring their parties closer to the centre, and the Washington consensus on how economies should be run (fiscal discipline/balanced budgets, free trade, open movement for capital, moderate marginal tax rates, privatization of gov't enterprises, deregulation for private ones, etc) was never seriously questioned.
As a result, people who lost out from the received opinion - people who were laid off when their factories closed, etc - didn't have many politicians speaking for them, and the right side of politics needed a new message to differentiate themselves from the traditionally left parties.
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