Conservative losses in Australia and Canada have shocking parallels

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Two federal elections in a row — the first in Canada, the second in Australia — became referendums on U.S. President Donald Trump, whose tariffs are wildly unpopular in both of those countries. And the candidates who ran aggressively anti-Trump campaigns won.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, after a decisive victory over Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre in the country's April 28 election, is getting ready to meet with U.S. President…

Conservative losses in Australia and Canada have shocking parallels

That two opposition leaders could fall in such spectacular fashion in such similar democracies, and at nearly the same moment, is more than coincidence.

This might seem contradictory, given that Canada’s animosity towards the United States over Trump’s annexation and tariff threats was the determining issue of the elections. But if we look further, there are a number of structural trends, in line with a broader reorientation of politics across the Western world. First, although conservative leader Pierre Poillievre adopted a more populist style than his predecessors Tories Stephen Harper, Andrew…

In Australia, the social democratic Labor Party achieved its best result ever, while the conservative Liberal-National Coalition collapsed. The closeness of their leading candidate, Dutton, to US President Donald Trump is seen as the main reason for the Conservatives' poor result. After Canada, Australia is now the second country where Trump has handed the Conservatives a bitter defeat. The social democratic […] The article "Record result in Aus…

After Canada and Australia, could Donald Trump really be the saviour of centre-left politics?

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Blaming Trump for conservative losses in Canada and Australia doesn’t tell whole story

Blaming Donald Trump for conservative losses in both Canada and Australia is being too kind to Peter Dutton David Smith, University of Sydney Australia’s federal election, held less than a week after Canada’s, has produced a shockingly similar outcome. Commentators all over the world have pointed out the parallels. In both countries, centre-left governments looked like they were in serious trouble not long ago. On February 23, a Resolve Strateg…