JF

"But it belongs to the bosses!" Yeah. And the Times is one of the few institutions that's... Institutional enough to own that role. Woke radicalism is starting to look uncomfortably like a coup attempt. Why not road test a retrenchment of 90s get-alongness, with health care?

The same thing is happening here that happened to Corbyn; a political "revolution" using an old left socialist as a figurehead while rapidly entrenching middle class power within the left. There's no worker militancy to speak of right now. Middle class militancy, though...?

There's still an ownership class, though, and they're starting to wonder if the middle class is really serving them right now.

That realignment is definitely coming, but it won't come from the left. Once Sanders is gone, that's it as far as left social democracy goes. The others have already failed or turned towards the middle class (or both). It'll be the right that grabs this opportunity first.

The left running and screaming about Boris Johnson's 10.000 years of austerity was so incredibly tone-deaf and self-defeating because he represents exactly the kind of no-principles politician that is capable of building a new coalition between workers and owners.

The middle class at this point is so parasitic (especially here in Europe) that just slashing all the hard and soft subsidies they recieve out of the state exchequer will actually amount to a lot of money with which to cement such an alliance.

I'm not sure if that kind of alliance is properly labeled "right wing" in any meaningful sense, if you take the possibility seriously. It does seem more likely to come out of historically right-wing parties, but like you say - what's BoJo going to do, throw out all 15 Roma?

Well yeah, the terms are starting to lose their meaning. Going forward, you'll probably see two major poles in western politics: 1) a middle class pole attempting to prevent its own downward slide by means of forcing wages downward and state-guaranteed jobs. ->