Since the British Labour Party’s shattering defeat in last week’s general election, many people, myself included, have been thinking through its implications for the left, and especially for the Democrats’ prospects in 2020. But what did the result mean for the right? In an essay published shortly before the election, Gerard Baker, the Wall Street Journal’s editor-at-large, said that, if Boris Johnson’s “new national populist party wins on Thursday, it will be a model that will be studied by ambitious conservatives across the West.” On Monday, Walter Russell Mead, a historian at Bard College, also writing in the Journal, hailed Johnson’s effort to create “what we might call National Conservatism,” a “pro-enterprise political approach that is nevertheless grounded in the traditional sentiments and loyalties of the people.”
ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All