Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning — the Trump effect is now sweeping the globe.
From Canada to the U.K. and continental Europe, left-liberal governments are tottering while right-leaning voters, especially young men, gravitate toward populist politics and take inspiration from Donald Trump’s success in America.
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It’s almost as if Trump himself were on the ballot in other advanced democracies.
Recent polls showing Trump to be more popular in Canada than the country’s own prime minister, Justin Trudeau, presaged Trudeau’s announcement this week of his resignation as Liberal Party leader and impending replacement as head of government.
Will Britain’s Keir Starmer, who’s only been in office since July, ultimately face a similar fate?
Starmer’s dismal, Biden-like — and Trudeau-like — poll numbers suggest so:
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