The Lessons Centrists Must Learn From This Election.
This election shows whilst it’s likely that Trump has lost and Biden has one. But a Biden president doesn’t spell the end. Trumpian populist politics. With a greater turnout whilst Biden has more votes than Trump. The incumbent has found the means to ensure Joe Biden doesn’t have a straightforward path to the White House.
This isn’t by no means a celebration or victory for liberals or centrists. Trump will ensure he won’t go quietly he will likely to keep his supporters in Trumpland rally around him whatever happens. The most entitled person it seems he doesn’t know how to loose. Likely will find the means to exert his pressure make his voice heard. The man doesn’t know the sound of silence. The self obsessed self absorbed egomaniac will ensure Trumpism will have its legacy. The question is will Trump continue entrepreneurial ventures, into creating a new news and media outlet more right wing than Fox News. Could he being a one term president run again in 2024 or could he pass on the legacy of Trumpian politics to one of his children.
We may see the reconstruction of the blue wall happening. In areas like Pennsylvania seeing a a shift to Biden. However, it mustn’t be seen like a return to the old pragmatist centrist politics that Biden represents and realises that is key in responding to the pandemic and many other crisis seen across America and across the world more radical progressive politics is needed something different to what has come before.
Biden leading with the slogans that comes with politics in 2020 the act of trippling championing ‘Build Back Better realising for rebuilding the economy, a divided nation, responding to challenges the world faces. The politics and leadership Biden offers must be different than the politics from democrats before.
So far, when being selected as the parties candidate nominee for president unlike Clinton, Biden reached out to those on the left wing of the democrat party the progressives Warren and Sanders whilst their politics being vastly different Biden recognises the importance of representing a more progressive platform that if it wasn’t for Covid-19 it wouldn’t be expected that he would adopt such a progressive platform.
In the United Kingdom with a conservative landslide majority Starmer is in the position of rebuilding his relationship with northern backing voters in the areas defined as the ‘red wall’ the labour heartlands. Labours more less radical leader who’s focusing on how to rebuild the parties relationship with eurosceptic, jewish, more centre leaning voters. Starmer yet has to offer much in policies but everything its opposition isn’t. This American Election has displayed more skepitism with the polls as predicted a landslide for Biden where as the reality is too close to call.
Lord Andrew Adonis a Labour Life Peer in the UK’s House of Lords claims its time for ‘bold centrism and New Labour 2.0’ a return to centrist and pragmatic politics. Something divergent from Farage, Cummings and Johnson (Farage leader of Brexit party who recently spoke at a Trump rally). Adonis arguing for return of stronger relations with our European counter parts which would make Britain’s relationship with a Biden presidency who has admitted that he felt that the people of Britain made the wrong decision and suggests Labour and Liberal Democrats should work together on opposing Independence movements for an Independent Scotland with the vast support Sturgeons SNP’s are gaining in series of elections in recent years, an independent Scotland is looking more likely. As well with the support of welsh independence movement ‘Yes Cymru’ growing in support. Unionists now must put forward an alternative and a compromise on this. So, Adonis has the right to put this forward.
What his opinion piece published in the independent and what the centrists of the Blairite and Brownite years realise. It isn’t as easy as simply going back to do the politics of yester-year. As much as I’m skeptical of populism the centre are going to face issues attracting support of younger voters or those disillusioned and feel politically homeless if represent the politics of the system they have been failed by.
The lesson this election must teach centist or liberal voters and politicians is that Trumpian populism is far from over. The political discourse wont simply return to a state where faith will be returned to state of pragmatist or establishment politics. Not when the parties once stood for them don’t offer them the hope and optimism voters need in tough times.
