There are red lines that a politician can’t afford to cross
On the back of a strong economy, Trump had a good chance of being reelected to a second term; Johnson had just delivered the biggest Conservative majority since Thatcher; and Netanyahu had overtaken Ben-Gurion’s tenure as prime minister.
Johnson’s recent downfall calls time on that era.
So where did it all go wrong, and how did the right implode?
In Trump’s and Bibi’s cases, the pandemic is part of the explanation. Voters reacted to the chaos and misery of Covid by demanding that heads roll. A biased media also did their best to hound them from office.
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