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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

#1642 Tumultuous Year of Democracy: Left-Wing victories in the UK, France and Mexico with lessons for the US

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Air Date 7/17/2024

Recent elections in the UK, France and Mexico spanned the spectrum from confirming inevitabilities to completely upending expectations but they each have lessons for politics in the US

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: The UK Election Results Explained - TLDR News - Air Date 7-5-24

KP 2: Shocking French election results- What you need to know - Zeteo - Air Date 7-8-24

KP 3: The biggest problems Mexico's first female president Claudia Sheinbaum is facing - DW News - Air Date 6-3-24

KP 4: Labour Wins Massive Majority On Low Vote Share, Gaza Costs Starmer - Novara Media - Air Date 7-5-24

KP 5: France’s leftwing alliance beat the far right, but what now? - Today in Focus - Air Date 7-8-24

KP 6: "The North Needs to Learn from the South": Mexico Poised to Elect First Woman President - Democracy Now! - Air Date 5-29-24

KP 7: Who Broke Britain- Part 4- The Tories Are Out - If You_re Listening - ABC News In-depth - Air Date 7-5-24

KP 8: First Woman President- Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum Faces Border And Drug Cartel Challenges - The Hill - Air Date 6-16-24


(1:00:32) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On how to react to the current political moment and all of the many moments to come

Article: The Democratic Party’s Strange Attraction to Defeatism


DEEPER DIVES

(1:10:16) SECTION A: FRANCE


(1:44:54) SECTION B: GREAT BRITAIN


(1:59:28) SECTION C: MEXICO


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Description: Graphic of a partially transparent ballot box with the UK flag, the French flag and the Mexican flag visible in composite in the background.

Credit: Composite design by A. Hoffman. Images from Pixabay.

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Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.

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Recent elections in the UK, France, and Mexico

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spanned the spectrum from confirming inevitabilities to completely up-ending

0:30.2

expectations, but they each have lessons for politics in the U.S.

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Sources providing our top takes in under an hour today include TLDR News, Zetio,

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DW News, Novara Media, Today in Focus, Democracy Now, ABC In Depth, and The Hill.

0:49.8

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more on France, the UK, and Mexico.

0:56.0

Now just a quick note before we get started, once again, I have more thoughts on the current

1:00.1

state of politics in the US in the wake of the attack on Donald Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania,

1:05.0

but I will save the comments for the editor to come in the release of the exit poll.

1:23.2

Now, the most shocking thing to note in the exit poll here was the number of expected

1:27.4

reform seats. The exit poll predicted that reform would get 13 seats, significantly higher than most of the

1:33.6

MRP polls in the one up to the election. However, there were some wobbles

1:37.4

through the night, with some polls suggesting that the exit poll had

1:40.6

overestimated the number of seats.

1:43.0

The more observant of you will notice that it turns out that the exit poll had indeed

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