The far right has been much better than the left at giving voters the illusion that it has an accurate map across these liminal spaces
Women march during a protest in Washington last Saturday. The idea of a return to the old patriarchal family headed by the male breadwinner is appealing to men who see it as a reassertion of natural superiority. But it also appeals to a significant minority of women. Photograph: Tierney L Cross/The New York Times
This transition has political consequences. It unleashes a backlash from the carbon producers who are still immensely wealthy and powerful. It gives them an incentive to discredit science. And it disturbs ordinary people whose lives are built around the availability of cheap petrol – gas prices loomed large in the US election.. Most developed societies are ageing and need inward migration to replenish their workforces. Ideas of “white” identity are under pressure.
The consequences for democratic politics are, again, twofold. First, the strength of the social democratic and neoliberal orders was manifest in the way their opponents had to accept them. Conservatives accommodated themselves to social democracy until the late 1970s. Then progressives did the same with neoliberalism. This meant that there was such a thing as a common ground, an underlying consensus between the big mainstream parties.
What does this mean for democratic politics? As religious groups shrink in size, they become more conservative and more militant. They are left with the most orthodox believers and they also feel that they have to, as they see it, stop the rot by imposing their articles of faith on society as a whole before it is too late.
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