I’ll be taking a bit of a mental health day.Thanks for reading Meaning In History! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This story began last night—I saw stories quoting the Left in Sweden as still believing they’ll win, but being on pins and needles. This morning John Hinderaker wrote that it’s beginning to look that the Right coalition, leading, will hold on. TGP has a post now claiming that, despite absentee ballots still to be counted, it looks final:
Regardless how the results play out in forming a government, this is still a stunning upset against the Left that will reverberate in EU politics. The Italian Right is predicted to win a crushing victory.
What all this means in terms of actual political positions remains to be seen. Equating any European parties with US parties is almost sure to be a mistake. But the growth of "populism" on both sides of the Atlantic seems a common denominator for the time being.
Sounds like he is already plotting his comeback. Leftists never stop pushing. I hope the farmers are equally busy preparing an educational, PR campaign. Too many people are oblivious to the diabolical designs of the left.
When push comes to shove, the Moderate Party will fold itself into the Social Democrat Party in a grand "coalition" to leave the Swedish Democrats in opposition. This has been a repeating pattern in European politics for the last 10 years.
I'm no expert on Swedish politics, and their murky electoral system. The Moderate party there is billed as pro-market, so something along the lines of Classical Liberal or Libertarian. On supposes they'd be unwilling to join with the Social Dems who are outright Socialist. They're currently part of the opposition coalition, had been the second biggest party, but now have been passed by Sweden Democrats. Can the Moderates be bought off? Who knows? Not me.
Two points. A reading up on the Moderate Party it doesn't sound as if they're politically in a position to jump ship--especially since they'll be the second largest member of the coalition and could get control of economic related ministries. They've been consistently opposed to the SocDems for decades in fairly fundamental ways.
OTOH, the Sweden Dems are very unlikely to change the policy re NATO. At least that's the read.
Regardless how the results play out in forming a government, this is still a stunning upset against the Left that will reverberate in EU politics. The Italian Right is predicted to win a crushing victory.
What all this means in terms of actual political positions remains to be seen. Equating any European parties with US parties is almost sure to be a mistake. But the growth of "populism" on both sides of the Atlantic seems a common denominator for the time being.
In other European news, the Dutch farmers managed to oust their radical environmentalist Agriculture Minister - https://slaynews.com/news/dutch-farmers-topple-agriculture-minister-climate-agenda/
Sounds like he is already plotting his comeback. Leftists never stop pushing. I hope the farmers are equally busy preparing an educational, PR campaign. Too many people are oblivious to the diabolical designs of the left.
Hopefully your day will include some fresh air, good food and time with loved ones.
Dunno about fresh air--I just got back from an indoor range. Good food and time with loved one--YES!
I have found the range can do wonders for mental health!
When push comes to shove, the Moderate Party will fold itself into the Social Democrat Party in a grand "coalition" to leave the Swedish Democrats in opposition. This has been a repeating pattern in European politics for the last 10 years.
What Yancey said. This is Charlie Brown thinking he's going to finally kick that football. No way.
I'm no expert on Swedish politics, and their murky electoral system. The Moderate party there is billed as pro-market, so something along the lines of Classical Liberal or Libertarian. On supposes they'd be unwilling to join with the Social Dems who are outright Socialist. They're currently part of the opposition coalition, had been the second biggest party, but now have been passed by Sweden Democrats. Can the Moderates be bought off? Who knows? Not me.
Read about the Moderate party here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderate_Party
Two points. A reading up on the Moderate Party it doesn't sound as if they're politically in a position to jump ship--especially since they'll be the second largest member of the coalition and could get control of economic related ministries. They've been consistently opposed to the SocDems for decades in fairly fundamental ways.
OTOH, the Sweden Dems are very unlikely to change the policy re NATO. At least that's the read.
I suspect they're basically like a clan or tribe--extended family.