“All political lives, unless they are cut off in the way at a satisfying time, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and human affairs. “This is what Britain’s Enoch Powell, whose once brilliant career ended in impressive failure, said. .
In recent times, most careers end in failure. Consider Powell’s local Britain, which this week installed its fourth Conservative Party prime minister in 12 years. David Cameron resigned after Britons rejected his recommendation and voted for Brexit in 2016, and Theresa May was ousted. in 2019 after failing to enforce Brexit. Boris Johnson delivered Brexit, but was ousted for moral infractions this summer. His successor, Liz Truss, could lose the general election that will be held until 2024.
Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister for 11 years, Tony Blair for 10 years. The average duration of the workplace of the last 4 holders 3 years.
French President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected in May, but in June the electorate installed a fake anti-Macron majority in parliament.
Angela Merkel, hailed by The Economist as German chancellor from 2005 to 2021, has noticed the rejection of her policies through events. the Germans to collect firewood to spend the winter.
Merkel’s appeasement of Russia followed her invasion of Ukraine, and Merkel’s low military budgets meant that Germany could not provide much aid to the Ukrainians. Never since Neville Chamberlain, a leader widely acclaimed as a statesman, has he revealed himself so temporarily as a failure.
Nor is it transparent that the policies of the world’s wonderful dictators have succeeded. Vladimir Putin’s demoralized troops failed Ukraine; their aggression brought Finland and Sweden into NATO, turning the Baltic into a NATO lake; its economy has been affected and could falter even more in the coming years.
His friend Xi Jinping may only get a 10-year term as China’s leader, but that only means he’ll have to factor in the declining working-age population and strict COVID lockdowns that have slowed or may completely halt China’s economic growth. Xi’s China has crushed Hong Kong’s freedoms, but it has also become enemies of all of China’s neighbors.
EE. UU. no leaders are doing much better. After 3 U. S. Presidents Successive U. S. voters managed to get re-elected, with 49%, 51% and 51% of the popular vote, their two successors achieved only a few moments above 50% approval of tasks.
Donald Trump can simply argue that some positive trends have occurred under his leadership: low-income wage gains, low unemployment, and border controls that have produced more professional legal immigration. But COVID lockdowns crippled most of the economy and violent crime exploded afterwards. the George Floyd riots.
All the positive trends under President Joe Biden have been overcome through chaotic effects that most likely stem from his party’s policies: uncontrollable inflation, uncontrollable illegal immigration, and uncontrollable violent crime. The economy has not returned to pre-COVID conditions. young people a lot in learning and non-white young people even further away than before.
Unlike Enoch Powell, neither of the two septuagenarian U. S. presidents. The U. S. has suffered a definitive failure. Both will run again in 2024, despite evidence that giant majorities need everyone to be excluded from the race.
Trump, who won a majority of 42,000 instant votes in the Electoral College in 2020, refuses to prevent that race from being held again, and any chance of Trump being the term depends on whether a Democratic nominee is deemed unacceptable.
Biden, who was within 42,000 wasted votes in 2020, has led the left into politics. Even as he accuses Trump of ending democracy, his Justice Department is expanding Trump’s visibility by digging into Mar-a-Lago. His party’s leaders are finishing millions to announce Trumpish candidates in the Republican primary.
Neither Biden’s nor Trump’s careers seem to end successfully.
Their political disorders and those of the leaders seem to have some other cause: an over-reliance on the prescriptions of so-called experts, from economists to epidemiologists, based on formulated models of how the world worked, or intentionally, but which are irrelevant. with the way the global works now.
The most recent studies imply that the lockdowns caused by epidemiologists’ models, based on more fatal diseases, have produced minimal discounts on deaths, but imposed high ancillary health, economic and educational costs. Similarly, economists have advised pumping giant sums of cash into the economy. , although it has broken in a very different way than the recessions of the 20th century. His prescriptions failed to repair pre-COVID degrees of hard work and produced unforeseen inflation.
Political failure is how democratic procedure punishes mistakes. The proliferation of political careers that end in failure underscores the desire to relearn how the global one works, to sweep away the septuagenarian boiling.