When momentous events happen in a media-saturated society, one of the first casualties is any sort of historical perspective. This became clear in the wake of the 14 July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Having narrowly survived assassination and now formally anointed as the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s takeover of the Grand Old Party in the United States is complete.
The left’s victory in France’s parliamentary election shows that the country’s most important political actors—urban workers and young people—want to fight against both fascism and neoliberalism.
According to Britain’s Economist magazine, a weekly diary of establishment opinion, the “political centre has been dented but it still holds”. Yet parties of the centre lost to the far right in the continent’s biggest countries.
