No. Sweden was a welfare state in the 1970s without multiculturalism. You can recover from bad economic policies. It is hard to recover if you lose your people.https://twitter.com/kammminekko/status/1055659068533194752 …
Not denying @ramzpaul 's point, btw
The left realized that the welfare state was a long term loser so they lost their passion for it but the welfare state is a sweet scam for the left so they adapted
Importing diversity *is* what abandoning the welfare state looks like