Welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin managing editor Micah Utricked.

If you're like me, you were completely crushed by the results from the UK elections. were a pretty resounding defeat for the

Labour Party and for Jeremy Corbyn and there's no question that it was a crushing

defeat nobody would deny that.

But I also think that it's not quite accurate to say that the UK election was some kind of resounding defeat for socialism. I mean the election was principally about Brexit

and Labor's stance on Brexit was certainly shot down and we should talk about why

it was shot down and you know what we can learn from that and mistakes

that the Labor Party shouldn't make again as well as other parties throughout

Europe or in the United States, but Labor ran on a robust left economic policy platform that was very popular.

And you can't say that those left economic policies were soundly rejected in this election

if the election was not fundamentally about those policies.

I think this is important to say because you've already seen some pundits in the United States,

in the UK and elsewhere say that election results in the UK show why we have to reject a leftward turn in parties like the Labor Party or in parties like the Democratic Party and what that is fundamentally about of course is telling people

we should not choose Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee for president we certainly

shouldn't elect him to be president.

That will be a disaster, that people will not go for what he's selling, and I think that that

is fundamentally wrong. Not only do I believe on a moral and political level that that's wrong, but I think that on a practical

political level it's very wrong.

And so I talked about this with David Broder.

David is Jacobin's Europe editor. He wrote two articles since the UK election

results came in. One on the night of the elections called I'm crying,

you're crying, but our day will come, and another called Labor's Brexit Dance defeated

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