"More than a year after the election that handed Donald Trump a decisive comeback victory, the Democratic party has still not released its postmortem analysis. But last week, an influential progressive lobby group published its own. Kamala Harris's campaign, its authors argued, failed to connect with core constituencies because it did not focus enough on addressing basic economic anxieties. By prioritising the menace to democracy that Maga authoritarianism represented, progressives neglected the bread-and-butter issues that were uppermost in many people's minds."
"As the EU braces for a tumultuous period of politics between now and the end of the decade, that is a lesson that needs to be fully absorbed in Brussels, Paris and Berlin. The White House, as its recently published national security strategy makes clear, is hopeful that patriotic parties in Europe will soon replicate Mr Trump's success. In the EU's Franco-German engine room, Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) and Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) lead the polls, backed by large swaths of blue-collar voters."
Democratic leadership has not published a formal post-election review, while a progressive lobby concluded Kamala Harris's campaign failed to address basic economic anxieties and prioritized threats to democracy over bread-and-butter issues. European mainstream parties risk repeating American missteps as patriotic, populist parties gain support among blue-collar voters. Europe faces costly, era-defining challenges: the war in Ukraine, the green transition, demographic change, and reducing economic vulnerability to external pressure. Analysts estimate an extra €250bn per year for EU defence. Mario Draghi recommended massive public investment partly financed by jointly issued EU debt, yet bold revenue-raising measures remain lacking.
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