The only real simplification I can find in all of this, (as things have become more polarised), there is an obvious pattern
the 'left' (Democrats US, Labour UK, Socialist across Europe) keeps losng because their message is generally:
'Our nation is inherently bad, our culture is toxic, our system is broken, You should feel bad and ashamed'.
The right (Rebublicans, Conservatives) are saying Our nation is good, the sytem more or less works, you should feel proud and belive in it.
Case and point, things are not currently that bad for most people, so obviously the latter is going resonate more often.
10 years ago there was probably alot more of an appetite for some kind of Socialist or Libertarian revolution than there is now.
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