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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