The idea that you should do *more* of the thing you did while getting absolutely smushed at the polls should not be your go-to hypothesis. Sometimes you go backwards because you were facing once-in-a-lifetime headwinds, but more likely it's because you ran in the wrong direction.
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The one consolation in being thoroughly trounced in an election is that you learn what doesn't work. A close election doesn't give you that knowledge! So it's dismaying to watch people throw away a valuable and expensive lesson to double down on their pre-existing beliefs.
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In Hong Kong, they learned not to tear gas the entire electorate for six months. In Britain, they learned not to run Jeremy Corbyn promising socialism. There is massive denial on the losing side in both places but useful lessons are there for the taking!
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(Though Britain is weird and the "tear gas everyone" party might be able to replace the LibDems at this point)
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I lived this reality on the doorsteps of Lancaster, PA!
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There are two things here. One is that Corbynism/Momentum engaged a huge population of new activists. The other is that they entered a party whose voters didn’t agree.
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There should be space for both in our politics, if not necessarily in the Labour Party.
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Momentum was a faction that began to look suspiciously like a socialist personality cult. It’s attitude to the electorate guaranteed rejection and discord. That they went and talked to people isn’t a positive outcome.
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Reminds me of how in places Hillary Clinton's get-out-the-vote operation appears to have actually brought more Trump than Clinton voters to the polls.
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