Sinn Féin tried to fight a general election campaign in a local and European election, and it didn’t work
Sinn Féin tried to fight a general election campaign in a local and European election, and it didn’t workAs Sinn Féin 'regroups' after the local and European election results they have obvious failures to address. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Timesstumble.
Perhaps Sinn Féin observed a weird anti-establishment movement growing, and sought to divert it to the centre of political power “Anti-migrant sentiment” is about fear and negativity towards “the other” and blaming housing and social infrastructure scarcity on a spectre rather than a system. As this was fanned, Sinn Féin largely kept its counsel, but the party’s lack of clarity did not widen its reach. It is one of the reasons for the contraction it is experiencing.
Sinn Féin has a choice to react or respond. Capitulating to anti-immigrant populism, for example, is a tactic, not a strategy. In any case, the hard-core anti-immigrant movement is not a potential Sinn Féin vote. Anti-immigrant protesters are often politically incoherent, but typically resolutely anti-Sinn Féin.
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