Let Them Eat Respect?
Plenty of center-left political strategists have concluded that traditionally social democratic parties need to accommodate nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment to win back working-class voters. But this approach is not only misguided politically and morally; it is also empirically wrong.
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PRINCETON – A few victories by center-left parties in large countries hardly makes for an international trend. Nonetheless, wins by the US Democrats in 2020 and the German Social Democrats (SPD) in 2021 – not to mention a strong socialist performance in Portugal’s recent election – suggest that the much-discussed crisis of social democracy has not been fatal.