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WSJ Declares Progressive Moment Is Over — Globally – HotAir

“For now,” anyway, but the qualifier might not be necessary for a while. The post-Cold War global-progressive project has come to screeching halts in the US (again) as well as several European Union nations, perhaps even Germany. It might end in Canada soon too, and perhaps even in the UK where Labour got a brief respite in the most recent elections.





So what has killed it? The Wall Street Journal chalks it up to economics, but that may just be the catalyst:

This past year showed that the progressive politics that dominated most industrialized countries over the past two decades or more is shifting to the right, fueled by working-class anxieties over the economy and immigration, and growing fatigue with issues from climate change to identity politics. …

Part of the shift is the normal pendulum of politics swinging back and forth between established parties…

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