Incumbents worldwide were crushed in 2024, but will they learn from the beatdown?
The triumphant return of President-elect Donald Trump did not occur in a vacuum. Throughout the world, governments led by the parties of the 21st-century global political establishment find themselves reeling from a public blowback that has been decades in the making.
“From America’s Democrats to Britain’s Tories, [French President] Emmanuel’s Macron’s Ensemble coalition to Japan’s Liberal Democrats, even to [India Prime Minister] Narendra Modi’s erstwhile dominant BJP, governing parties and leaders have undergone an unprecedented series of reversals this year,” John Burn-Murdoch wrote Nov. 7 in an article for UK newspaper Financial Times that has received widespread attention.
“The incumbents in every single one of the 10 major…
