World Politics

Why Incumbent Governments Are Losing Across the West

It’s not (just) because of inflation.

Dec 21, 2024

Why Incumbent Governments Are Losing Across the West

A chart from the Financial Times is currently circulating, which attempts to argue that incumbent governments are losing around the West:

The chart is somewhat misleading — far more than seven developed countries had elections this year, and there were well over ten in Europe alone — but it is accurate to say that incumbent Western governments have had a rough time. Ruling parties lost elections or support in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Lithuania, Estonia, Ireland, the United States, and elsewhere.

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Joy Carlson2 years ago

Open borders are never a good idea. Altruistic people whi have a naive belief that "all men are brothers" ruin the country for those of us who remember Cain and Abel.

Doug Ebbecke2 years ago

Immigration within reason is fine, but if it not a selective process and has no limitations it’s more a reduction of nationalism. It also needs to be people who are anxious to acclimate rather than change the country they came to into the one they left.

Kate Devaney2 years ago

It was how much our countrymen had in common that made it possible for Americans of 13 colonies to unite and form a nation. It was, and always will be, sameness, not diversity, that brings and holds people together in peaceful and productive coexistence. The two most uniting sameness influences in the US has been our Judeo-Christian values and common language. Uncontrolled immigration dilutes this essential sameness. Progressive doctrine of open borders intentionally undermines this truth, destabilizing countries and eventually the world.

The pundits will continue to manipulate the facts and promote whatever self serving excuse for the troubles of incumbent western governments that they think will fool the people. But in fact, the people are responding to the eminent threat that Progressive doctrine posses to the liberty and peace that their common Judeo-Christian values and language has made possible for them to achieve and sustain.