Progressive: Dems, Beware Labour’s Woes

“Democrats would be wise to look across the Atlantic at what happened to the Labour Party,” John Judis warns at Talking Points Memo. In its 2019 shellacking and more woes in last week’s local elections, the party has hemorrhaged working-class voters. Why? Labour under Tony Blair “cast its lot with the growth of London’s financial sector,” embraced the European Union and “extolled the promise of globalization.” Then new “young and college-educated” activists joined under Jeremy Corbyn, pushing “support for a cultural politics that broke with Labour’s historical commitments to family, community and nation,” even denouncing feminists “that restricted membership in their rape shelters to biological women.” Some hope to copy Joe Biden’s success, but Biden, 78,

“reflects an older labor-oriented Democratic party that is being replaced by a party preoccupied with culture and identity.” Dems’ response to

Labour’s collapse should be: “It can happen here.”