In Europe today, it’s springtime for the center-right, who this week marked some of the widest electoral victories in history. To see the real breadth of the amount of change toward the free market right, this results map from the Financial Times is particularly astonishing, and the Guardian has the United Kingdom’s version of the same.
The impression these maps create is not so much a sign of a coherent act of political expression as it is one continent, sickened by years of economic socialism, vomiting the entirety of the ruling class (with the exceptions of already right-of-center France and Germany) into the Atlantic. And that’s why, as the coming changeover in the UK is the political shift gains the American right’s attention, one should retain a healthy amount of skepticism about conservatives on this side of the pond emulating the European center-right’s paths to success.
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