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发帖数: 5818 | 1 Corbyn's bloodbath defeat in UK election sends 'catastrophic warning' to
2020 Dems
Left-wing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn saw his party mauled in Britain
’s general election Thursday as its strongholds across the country fell to
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party -- a dramatic result that
commentators on both sides of the pond are seeing as a warning to socialist
-leaning Democrats ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
And for those who have openly cautioned about the party's drift to the left,
the U.K. results were treated as nothing short of a wake-up call. A sign,
for some, that even a populist incumbent as irreverent and contentious as
Johnson could ride to victory when the alternative is an equally
controversial leftist vowing massive government expansion.
“Maybe this is the canary in the coal mine,” Democratic presidential
hopeful Michael Bloomberg, who has tried to sell himself as a more electable
alternative to candidates like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders since
entering the race last month, told reporters Friday. “The public clearly
wanted a change in the U.K. The change was much more rapid and [had] greater
magnitude than anyone had predicted. And I think it’s sort of a
catastrophic warning to the Democratic Party that you’re just going to have
to have somebody that can beat Donald Trump, and that is not going to be
easy.”
“Americans want change, but I think they don’t want revolutionary change,
” the centrist billionaire said. “They want evolutionary change.” |
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