The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney PC CC GOQ
laddicus finch
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« on: October 30, 2022, 10:19:38 PM » |
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I know I'm like the millionth person to point this out, but the US parallels really are something. A populist hard-right president, widely scorned by the wider world but has a strong and loyal domestic following. Opponents unite around an elder (and elderly) statesman, polls show the incumbent losing massively, and while he does lose, the margin is much tighter than predicted, and the president's party doesn't have a majority in Congress (slight difference here as Biden does have a congressional majority, narrow as it is, which Lula won't), so it's very much in doubt whether the new President can actually get his platform implemented. I hope there's a peaceful transfer of power, because election disputes in South America don't historically feature fanatics in buffalo costumes, but soldiers with guns and boots.
And on goes the challenge for those of us on the right who aren't into the whole Trump/Bolsonaro style of politics. Moderates will have to co-opt some aspects of the populist right in order to push them back into the fringes, but there's a fine line between co-oping and being co-opted that can be easy to cross.
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