Continuing with our global roundup of reaction to the U.S. midterm elections, this editorial from Mexico’s La Jornada expresses grave concern about the consequences of resurgent U.S. conservatism.
Yesterday’s La Jornada editorial says in part:
What happened yesterday in the United States is the triumphal return of political and social conservatism, vanquished in 2008 in such an overwhelming fashion that it seemed to have been a rout of lasting consequences. The inevitable conclusion is that the vacillations and inconsistencies of Obama himself over the first two years of his term, as well as the stubborn resistance organized against him on the ground by the so-called Tea Party, culminated in a severe failure of the progressive movement, proponents of the welfare state, the secular sector, women, ethnic and sexual minorities, migrants, workers and in general, groups that are less favored economically and socially.
A bleak but unavoidable prospect is that for the next two years, with a president trapped in foreign policy by his own ideological inertia, with corporate powers that have obstructed his agenda for change and predominantly Republican lower house, the broad informal coalition that brought Obama to power in 2008 will dissolve in discouragement.
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