Really, the issue is just that you win some, you lose some. Some people got very attached to the whole 'centre-left in inexorable decline' narrative for their own reasons, and now that it looks like it may not have been true they're overcorrecting. parochial boy is right about the context, but what all of that means above all is that few things are fixed nowadays and outside of very politically polarised societies, the last election tells you almost nothing about the next. Maybe in a year's time a lot of these new centre-left governments will be in the polling doldrums and the discourse will be right back where it started, and still as annoying as ever.
I hate being right.
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