Conservatives make major strides in…<\/p>\n
…Sweden?<\/p>\n
Sweden\u2019s elections on Sunday carry the same lesson we should have already learned with Brexit and Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 victory: Those whom political elites view as \u201cdeplorables\u201d are going to have their say. The question now is whether elites will continue to ignore them and the lessons they bring.<\/p>\n
Once a poster child for political consensus, Sweden is now deeply polarized. Parties on the traditional right and those on the traditional left wound up in a photo finish, each with about 41 percent of the vote. The remaining 18 percent of the vote was captured by Sweden Democrats (SD), a once obscure populist party with some roots in 1980s neofascism.It has since largely cleaned up its act and seen its support skyrocket as other parties have ignored its key issues of immigration and crime. The SD claims it now practices a \u201czero-tolerance\u201d policy against members who make openly racist or anti-Semitic statements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sweden’s had a couple shots of Real World in recent years; conservative inroads should be expected.<\/p>\n
But the “elites” never really do expect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Conservatives make major strides in… …Sweden? Sweden\u2019s elections on Sunday carry the same lesson we should have already learned with Brexit and Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 victory: Those whom political elites view as \u201cdeplorables\u201d are going to have their say. The question now is whether elites will continue to ignore them and the lessons they bring. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67935\/revisions\/67936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}