How’s the great Anglosphere crossover going? Hmmmmmmmm, good and bad. What’s the great Anglosphere crossover? It’s the process by which certain policies are migrating from mainstream left parties, to mainstream right ones, in pursuit of parts of the working- and middle-class vote. It’s the stage beyond the “culture wars”, the process by which the post-WWII social coalitions finally and fully break up.
The process really began with Donald Trump in 2016. The Republicans — who have just issued a 2024 manifesto which is very “crossover” — had been waging war on “the elites” for years.
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