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Three and a half years is a long time in politics

Conservatism is looking pretty good

1 February 2020

9:00 AM

1 February 2020

9:00 AM

Cast your mind back a little fewer than four years ago, say to March or April of 2016. And then consider how conservatism was faring across the main countries of the Anglosphere. It wasn’t particularly good, was it? In the United States President Obama was nearing the end of his two-term, eight-year tenure and most everyone (a few notables excepted) predicted a Hillary Clinton win and another Democrat in the White House for years to come.

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