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Clive Crook/Bloomberg:
American and British Conservatives Are Frozen in Failure
Both Republicans and Tories are finding the revolutions of 2016 difficult to reverse
For the past few years, the US and the UK have followed strikingly similar political trajectories. Against all odds, populist uprisings captured both countries’ conservative parties, secured power and embarked on projects of national transformation. These efforts went badly (to put it generously), and in due course support for the rebellions subsided.
Lately voters have been calling for a rethink. In both countries, this is proving harder than you’d suppose.
