Last night, the U.K. Labour Party, led by the illustrious Jeremy Corbyn, suffered a crushing defeat to Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party. A lot of American liberals are struggling to process how something like that could happen. After all, Boris Johnson is just British Trump and Orange Men Bad and the Conservative Party is the party of Satan and the fact that Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semitic bigot and terrorist apologist troll couldn’t possibly have played a role.
Well, for what it’s worth, Andrew Sullivan offered up this take on the results of the U.K. election:
Simple lesson: there is a big majority in US and U.K. for anti-pc nationalism wedded to leftist economics. The first Democrat to get there wins.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) December 13, 2019
But Soledad O’Brien apparently thinks white nationalism is the ticket to electoral success:
Uh—or white nationalism. This dude is such a bozo. https://t.co/gODCBr9EAJ
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) December 13, 2019
She’s free to disagree with Sullivan, of course. Plenty of people do. But to suggest that white nationalism is what drove the Tories’ sweeping victory suggests she does not actually know what she’s talking about.
Soledad O’Brien thinks it is the "white nationalism" of U.K. voters that re-elected Boris Johnson. Hard to square that with the anti-Semite who was Johnson’s primary opponent. https://t.co/tNmm3szToR
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) December 13, 2019
I think anti-pc- nationalism is exactly nationalism for white people.
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) December 13, 2019
Whatever you say, dear.
When elections don't turn out in your favor, blame racism. https://t.co/MkM0q5GV5c
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 13, 2019
Lefties do that for American elections all the time. Why not apply that same logic to elections in other countries, too?
