• But the rise of Donald Trump has completely reshaped the Republican race. (nbcnews.com)
  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump. (wate.com)
  • Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump marked the return of the repressed: the reemergence of two varieties of popular politics that were common until the 1940s but were eventually crushed under the pressure of the long cold war. (nplusonemag.com)
  • But the political ferment and fervor once associated with that label have grown more intense as they were reshaped by former President Donald Trump. (wpsu.org)
  • I really have no idea why this is the case," said former Gov. Jeb Bush, who was considered the frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential primary before Donald Trump's ascent reshaped the party. (wlns.com)
  • The official Republican Party has a theory about effective politics, and it's much different than Trump's. (nbcnews.com)
  • It's been a month since the election and here's what's clear: crony capitalism, the kind that festers and grows when offered public support in its search for private profits, is the order of the day among Donald Trump's cabinet picks. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Trump's version of a political and financial establishment, just forming, will be bound together by certain behavioral patterns born of relationships among those of similar status, background, social position, legacy connections, and an assumed allegiance to a dogma of self-aggrandizement that overshadows everything else. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Similar to the energy around Trump's ascension in 2016 and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Bolsonaro built a base of evangelical and Pentecostal supporters to fuel his election win in 2018 and the protests against his 2022 loss. (wordandway.org)
  • Ultimately, though, the reason the world is so focused on France right now is this: Le Pen, a far-right populist who has campaigned on closing French borders, banning immigration, leaving the European Union, and cracking down on "Islamic Fundamentalism," has a real chance of winning power in a major Western European nation. (vox.com)
  • With the participation of different left-wing, feminist and ecological groups, parties and movements, ethnic and religious minorities, the HDP and the HDK have been attempting to unify and represent all oppressed groups in terms of the class, ethnicity/nation, religion, gender in Turkey with a left-wing populist political agenda. (opendemocracy.net)
  • But the CAQ is a different brand of conservative party, less populist, more establishment-friendly. (cbc.ca)
  • As a result, a growing number of observers now suggests that the recent success of green parties, especially in western Europe, marks the end of the populist ascendancy. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Today, the populist energy within the Republican Party goes by the name he gave it: MAGA (Make America Great Again). (wpsu.org)
  • 3 The Swedish Democratic Party (Sverigedemokraterna) is a nationalist and right-wing populist party. (lu.se)
  • Early in the 2016 presidential cycle, many political observers thought former Gov. Bush or Sen. Marco Rubio would win the Republican nomination to challenge Democrat Hillary Clinton. (wlns.com)
  • There are two basic ways of thinking about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. (theverge.com)
  • The other is that the 2016 revealed vulnerabilities in social platforms so fundamental that they cannot effectively be contained - leaving an opening for any interested parties who wish to sway politics. (theverge.com)
  • The British people voted for change in 2016, and again in the 2019 election to make sure that change was delivered. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • The 2016 election was the last election of the cold war. (nplusonemag.com)
  • But with the 2016 election, the cold-war paradigm finally shattered. (nplusonemag.com)
  • According to Alliance for Youth Action, if the November 2022 election were held today, 53% of young voters in battleground states would vote for the Democratic candidate for Congress, while 42% would vote for the Republican candidate for Congress. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • And its influence on the 2022 midterms seems destined to track that of the Tea Party surge in 2010. (wpsu.org)
  • The party received 4,61 percent of the votes in the last (2022) parliamentary election. (lu.se)
  • In the last (2022) parliamentary election the party obtained a narrow win. (lu.se)
  • In the last parliamentary election (2022) the party secured 20,5 percent of the popular vote and became the largest party on the right block. (lu.se)
  • And while no one involved seems to think the operations proved decisive in the 2018 midterm elections, they contribute to a general diminishment of trust in social networks as a platform for honest political discussions. (theverge.com)
  • In the midterm elections of 2010, that movement remade Congress and helped the Republican Party to a decade of dominance in electing the legislatures of roughly 30 states. (wpsu.org)
  • While I was on the metro desk (2008-2018) I also had a hand in virtually all local political stories, including the Blagojevich scandal , the Hastert molestation case, etc. (pressthink.org)
  • It's meant that Macron, a total upstart from a brand-new party, is polling at the top of the heap, and two populists - one from the far-right and one from the far-left - are drawing raucous crowds and massive support. (vox.com)
  • These towns and small cities, which make up Quebec's industrial belt, are also emerging as bastions of support for Coalition Avenir Québec, the upstart conservative party that is reshaping politics in the province. (cbc.ca)
  • In the House, Pelosi (D-Calif.) is trying to keep her party's ideological fissures from becoming yawning chasms that will hobble Democrats in the 2020 election, including throttling back growing demands among Democratic members to begin impeachment proceedings against the president - which she regards as a losing issue politically. (bgov.com)
  • It was the only subject that appeared to irritate the president, who otherwise predicted that the Democrats hurt their 2020 election chances with the hearing and accused them of overplaying their hand on Mueller's report. (bgov.com)
  • After the initial shock for both sides, the mutual recriminations, and the chaos of the negotiations, the 2019 election marked a point when the nation collectively decided enough was enough. (politicshome.com)
  • Bush has cast his bilingualism as both a political asset in reaching Hispanics voters and a sign of his enthusiasm about America's growing Latino population. (nbcnews.com)
  • Trump has emphatically rejected the consensus view of Republican elites that the party must moderate its tone and positions to reach minority voters, young people and women. (nbcnews.com)
  • But if Republican voters pick Trump as their nominee, it will be a rejection of almost the entire apparatus of the Republican Party, its donor class, its elected officials and other leaders, nearly all of whom oppose the mogul. (nbcnews.com)
  • Three of the GOP candidates in particular, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Bush and Rubio, have embraced the ideas in that report, making outreach to minorities and more moderate voters a hallmark of their political brands. (nbcnews.com)
  • Faced with a growing body of evidence that carefully tailored rehabilitation models can reduce recidivism or drug use better than jails and prisons, and with a burgeoning crisis in local and state government finances, politicians and voters alike are turning their backs on basic tough-on-crime staples. (thenation.com)
  • And as shocked and despairing Labour voters and activists search for a useful diagnosis of what the hell just happened , some politicians leap on an opportune crisis to reconstruct a schlerotic politics formerly somewhat sidelined by the prominence of the Labour Left. (versobooks.com)
  • Nevertheless, the Republican Party has enjoyed uninterrupted control of the Pennsylvania state senate since 1994 - a period in which Pennsylvania voters backed the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in five of six presidential elections. (nymag.com)
  • SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. - In an urgent plea as his party faces the potential loss of House and Senate control, President Joe Biden asked voters Thursday to go to the polls to support Democratic candidates, warning that a Republican Congress would reshape America by cutting back on health care and threatening abortion rights and retirement security. (ksat.com)
  • Voters won't forget $7 gas prices, the explosion in crime, inflation hitting 40-year highs, the crisis at our border," Maryott said in a statement. (ksat.com)
  • And it's an open question how much good Biden can do to motivate voters in the late days of a midterm election, when turnout falls off sharply from presidential election years. (ksat.com)
  • PiS remains Poland's most popular party, relying on support from older, conservative and rural voters. (politico.eu)
  • But this overlooks the rather obvious point that the greens have largely thrived by attracting voters who had previously opted for social democratic or far-left parties. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Even if the rivals of green parties might improve their relative standing by taking a page out of their playbook, increased competition for the same pool of voters is unlikely to break the right's electoral dominance. (democracyjournal.org)
  • According to HDP lawmaker Altan Tan, the AKP managed to win back a third of the conservative Kurdish voters who had left the AKP and gravitated toward the HDP on June 7. (al-monitor.com)
  • The walkout could continue if we fail to come up with the policies these voters desire," Tan said in a newspaper interview after the elections. (al-monitor.com)
  • A successful economy as well as national and social coping rely on trust, while conscious attempts to undermine that trust, which we have recently seen, will harm everyone instead of just individual parties or their voters, social scientist and politician Marju Lauristin tells ERR in an interview. (err.ee)
  • But critics also see the efforts as a political ploy to lure right-wing voters to Macron's centrist party ahead of France's April 10 presidential election. (breitbart.com)
  • Two of the most important issues was over the continuation of the urban renewal plans that had reshaped to Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Maybe he will reshape the Republican Party into the party of the little guy. (motherjones.com)
  • While it sounds like Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023, this was former Florida Democratic Gov. Reubin Askew in 1984. (wlns.com)
  • The Republican primary is now a fight between two competing ideologies: what some have dubbed "Trumpism," which borrows heavily from ideas of Tea Party activists, versus the views of the GOP elite, who helped Bush raised more than $100 million in the first six months of the year. (nbcnews.com)
  • The more conservative wing of the GOP looked weakened after the 2014 elections, when more establishment candidates won most of the key Republican primaries. (nbcnews.com)
  • Republican presidential candidate former Texas Rep. Will Hurd and his wife Lynlie visit the the Republican Party of Iowa booth at the Iowa State Fair, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (wkrn.com)
  • They like what he did in office and support his policy priorities - and yet they worry that what they view largely as political persecution could hobble him both as the Republican nominee and as president. (wkrn.com)
  • Democrat" and "Republican," we heard repeatedly, as if a prayer for electoral rain, were old labels, words without meaning, as were "liberal" and "conservative. (nybooks.com)
  • The choice we offer is not conservative or liberal, in many ways it is not even Republican or Democratic," the candidate told us. (nybooks.com)
  • In those critical elections, robust Republican turnout (and lackluster Democratic turnout) helped the party capture more than 60 seats in the U.S. House - the most the GOP had flipped in one election since 1938. (wpsu.org)
  • And yet conservative Republicans control the presidency, the Senate, the Supreme Court, 30 of 50 state legislatures, and a majority of America's governors' mansions. (nymag.com)
  • The president's return to heavily Democratic California in the run-up to Election Day speaks to the looming threat for his party in a turbulent midterm election year when Republicans appear poised to take control of the House, a grim prospect for Biden heading into the second half of his term. (ksat.com)
  • With less than five months before Iowans cast the first votes in the GOP contest, conversations with more than 40 Republicans at the time-honored presidential campaign ritual suggest the party is far from unified on much of anything else. (wkrn.com)
  • The Chicago Tribune has a carefully crafted reputation as a fairly conservative but mainstream newspaper that scrupulously tries to maintain balance in its coverage of Republicans and Democrats. (pressthink.org)
  • Indeed, you have said that as an editor of political stories you would count the quotes from Republicans and Democrats, "thinking an equal number would make us fairer. (pressthink.org)
  • First elected to the House of Representatives in 1946 and then to the U.S. Senate in 1950 before being selected by Dwight D. Eisenhower as a running mate in the 1952 presidential election, Nixon's rise to national prominence was even faster than Kennedy's. (billofrightsinstitute.org)
  • His stopover centered on safeguarding Levin's district, which has a slight Democratic tilt and cuts through San Diego and Orange counties and was carried by Biden by double digits in the 2020 presidential election. (ksat.com)
  • Borrowing Bozarslan's concepts, I would argue that the KM has been following a similar trajectory in Turkey since 2013 to reshape the political arenas at the level both of Turkey and the Kurdish region. (opendemocracy.net)
  • These predictions are simplistic and rest on assumptions of China's economic and political trajectory that may not be valid. (csis.org)
  • At the ballot box, the Democratic Party's standard-bearer has won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, while its House candidates won the nationwide vote by 8.6 percent in last year's midterms. (nymag.com)
  • Hours earlier, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Warsaw and other Polish cities to protest the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party's effort to impose tighter political controls over the judicial system. (politico.eu)
  • In politics, one party's gain is virtually always another party's loss. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Turkey's June 7 elections marked the end of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) supremacy in the predominantly Kurdish southeast , where it had been the No. 1 political party since its coming to power in 2002. (al-monitor.com)
  • The rise of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) in the region, which came at the expense of big AKP losses, has prompted the AKP to redesign Kurdish politics. (al-monitor.com)
  • AK Party (Justice and Development Party) lost its parliamentary majority as a result of HDP (Peoples's Democratic Party) success in overcoming the 10 percent election threshold. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Countless more since the Tory anti-EU wing launched its staggeringly successful reverse take-over of its parliamentary party. (politicshome.com)
  • But where the media and commentariat have started naming and questioning our EU divorce, parliamentary politics still appears in denial. (politicshome.com)
  • The union of the United Kingdom is the most successful political union in history, the foundation on which all our businesses and citizens can thrive and prosper, standing up for, and embodying in its institutions, liberty under the law, respect for all, fair play, free trade, parliamentary democracy and material progress. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • To enjoy a parliamentary majority the party decided to cooperate with the Swedish Democratic Party which has generated several controversial policy proposals on matters related to integration and immigration. (lu.se)
  • Well, brighter than your average shrub, or at least clever enough to figure out compassionate conservatives don't pay for rich people's pork by skipping across the scalps of the poor with mountain-climbing cleats. (motherjones.com)
  • According to the KM, democratic autonomy is a socio-political project that aims to construct the Kurdish people's self-government in their homeland. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Journalists said there was a political consensus uniting the two parties, which they called "Butskellism" after R.A. Butler, an intellectual leader of the Tories, and Hugh Gaitskell, who had become Labour's leader. (nybooks.com)
  • Following Labour's defeat in last week's general election, and the collapse of the vote in the North and Midlands, there has been a revival of Blue Labour and debate about the white working class and the need for Labour to regain their votes. (versobooks.com)
  • For Blue Labour, the triumph of Capital-C Conservatives can be traced back to Labour's abandoning of its real, deserving base in favour of 'metropolitan' middle class concerns with feminism and anti-colonial struggles. (versobooks.com)
  • Political parties were introduced into municipal politics, with both the Liberals and New Democrats running slates. (wikipedia.org)
  • There was never much doubt that Democrats would win a majority of votes in last year's House elections. (nymag.com)
  • If Democrats are scratching and clawing to hang on to districts Biden carried by double digits, they have likely already lost the House," said David Wasserman, an analyst with the Cook Political Report. (ksat.com)
  • This year, his race is considered a toss-up as Levin and other Democrats face historical midterm headwinds that typically punish the party in the White House, while soaring prices at the supermarket and gas pump have conspired to make once-safe incumbents vulnerable. (ksat.com)
  • There is no competitive race at the top of the ticket to drive Democratic voter turnout - Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, both Democrats, face only token opposition. (ksat.com)
  • Senator Rockefeller, describing himself as "one of those Democrats who doesn't threaten big donors," reported that this was a year in which it was possible to mount "the best financed Democratic presidential campaign ever," one in which the "donor base is bigger than ever," enabling the party to buy "focus groups, polling, research, whatever it takes to get the message out. (nybooks.com)
  • While Tea Party turnout helped the party outpoll Democrats for the Senate by 2 million votes nationally, it wasn't quite enough. (wpsu.org)
  • The party currently forms part of the "Tidö Agreement" consisting of the Christian Democrats, Moderate Party, and Swedish Democrats. (lu.se)
  • Polarisation is also driven by a clash between liberal and conservative values in which both sides attempt to impose their definitions of all kinds of rights. (tunein.com)
  • and the recent rise of green and liberal parties. (democracyjournal.org)
  • While the conservative end of the political spectrum in both countries prefers to see Nadimarg as attributable to the other side, the liberal end views it as explicable in light of internal pathology of both states. (indiatogether.org)
  • The liberal counter to the argument of Pakistan being locked in an ideological struggle with India is that it is self-serving as it helps forward the majoritarian agenda in Indian politics. (indiatogether.org)
  • 1 The Liberal Party (Liberalerna) is a conservative-liberal party. (lu.se)
  • 2 The Moderate Party (Moderaterna) is a liberal-conservative party in favor of market liberalism. (lu.se)
  • Although it is hardly the first time politicians have sought to revive cold-war presumptions for their own political purposes (Reagan ended the era of peaceful coexistence and détente with lurid denunciations of the "Evil Empire," coupled with panegyrics to American exceptionalism and free enterprise), the difference today is that the old-time religion can no longer be revived. (nplusonemag.com)
  • The leading candidates at that time, ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker differed on policy specifics but were similarly conservative and resided mostly within the establishment. (nbcnews.com)
  • The whole of the Labour Party moves leftwards, abandoning the centre and, I think, therefore abandoning the working people of this country. (newstatesman.com)
  • I can't help noticing that, for most of my childhood and early adult life, a succession of Labour Party leaders reformed the constitution of the Labour Party. (newstatesman.com)
  • It is the Labour Party that is stuck in its contradictions - nervous of offending red wall seats for a second time, sitting on the fence, and threatening to make Brexit work better than the Tories. (politicshome.com)
  • He contends that the participation of the Kurds in political and administrative processes at the Iraqi level (the Iraqization), has allowed them to construct an autonomous space at the Kurdistani level (Kurdistanization). (opendemocracy.net)
  • The Kurdish-majority southeast has become the theater of bloodshed and destruction, and the Kurds now worry more about their security than political priorities. (al-monitor.com)
  • Erdogan and the AKP subsequently employed a rhetoric that equated the HDP with the PKK, drew links between the HDP and terrorism and portrayed the HDP as an adversary of Islam, seeking to entice " devout Muslim Kurds " away from the party. (al-monitor.com)
  • Since the Nov. 1 polls, the AKP has intensified its efforts to permanently break the bond between conservative Kurds and the HDP, and create the popular base for an alternative Islamic Kurdish party or a "Kurdish AKP. (al-monitor.com)
  • The election was a disaster for the Liberals: Clarkson finished a distant third, and only two members were elected to city council. (wikipedia.org)
  • Few liberals (let alone socialists) are unfamiliar with the idea that American politics is rigged against them. (nymag.com)
  • The dialogue within both states between respective liberals and conservatives may indicate the plausible direction of the future. (indiatogether.org)
  • The overwhelming election victory in October of Jarosław Kaczyński's far-right Law and Justice party (PiS) has led to something more akin to regime change than to a routine turnover of democratically elected governments. (project-syndicate.org)
  • For decades, progressive policy analysts and criminal justice reformers such as Jones have argued that state and federal antidrug and, more generally, 'tough on crime' incarceration strategies were counterproductive: that they were dramatically reshaping American society, at a staggering fiscal and moral cost, and they weren't succeeding. (thenation.com)
  • Florida has long been influential in national politics - never more so than in 2000 when there were five weeks of recounts and court challenges before George W. Bush carried the state and won the presidency, by 537 votes. (wlns.com)
  • Not only did Bolsonaro court evangelical and Pentecostal communities during his campaigns and presidency, but the pro-Bolsonaro election-denying protests in Brazil the past few months included Christian rhetoric mixed in with political claims. (wordandway.org)
  • Signaling an emerging rift within the party, the HDP's Adil Zozani, for instance, said an executive presidency for Erdogan could be supported if this would mean the settlement of the Kurdish problem and freedom for jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on Imrali island. (al-monitor.com)
  • The coalitions that sustained the traditional left parties in the West have collapsed. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Historically the party has oscillated between right- wing and center-left government coalitions. (lu.se)
  • FILE - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush takes part in a discussion at a George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture, Sept. 27, 2019, at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. (wlns.com)
  • He introduced Florida U.S. House members who had endorsed him, a shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a 2024 rival who was touring the fair with his family. (wavy.com)
  • The excesses of GOP gerrymandering , biases of the Electoral College , obscenity of Senate malapportionment, and inequity of class disparities in voter turnout have been detailed in countless columns and Twitter tirades - while the myriad ways that concentrated capital pulls politics rightward have been catalogued in many a Marxist's manifesto. (nymag.com)
  • Americans were deeply divided over the Vietnam War, social movements challenged the status quo, the economy faltered, and more Americans began to distrust politicians and the government. (billofrightsinstitute.org)
  • Though it favours lower immigration rates and is an ardent defender of the secular status quo, the essence of its political project lies elsewhere. (cbc.ca)
  • This goes to show that a wide swathe of the population are fed up with all the parties of the status quo, and are looking for an alternative. (marxist.com)
  • The NDP chose not to enter an official mayoral candidate, but tacitly endorsed incumbent William Dennison, who ran as an independent but had been active in the New Democratic Party, and its predecessor the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, for many decades previously. (wikipedia.org)
  • It changed its name to DBP (Democratic Regions Party) and transferred its PMs to the HDP, while keeping the local governments under its party structure. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Both DBP and DTK have been re-organizing themselves in accordance with eight aspects - political, legislative, self-defense, cultural, social, economic, ecological and diplomatic - of the democratic autonomy project. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Speaking in San Diego County, California, at an evening rally in support of endangered Democratic Rep. Mike Levin, the president said the outcome of the election would "determine the direction of the country for at least a decade or more. (ksat.com)
  • To grow the overall vote share of the left, they say, far-left and social democratic parties need only to emulate the greens. (democracyjournal.org)
  • But the same trend has made it far harder for the left to appeal to its traditional working-class constituency, weakening both social democratic and far-left parties. (democracyjournal.org)
  • For much of the twentieth century, social democratic movements like Labour in Britain or the Social Democratic Party in Germany monopolized the vast majority of left-wing votes. (democracyjournal.org)
  • The focus on economic issues handed social democratic parties a vast heartland in the industrial parts of the Western world. (democracyjournal.org)
  • What Governor Clinton had been calling "a New Covenant" (for a while he had called it "a Third Way," which had sounded infelicitously Peruvian) was essentially the Democratic Leadership Council's "New Choice," or more recently its "New Social Contract," a series of policy adjustments meant to "reinvent government" (as in Reinventing Government by David Osborne, a Clinton adviser) not at all by diminishing but by repackaging its role. (nybooks.com)
  • With the Moderate Party2 (M) now in office, alongside the supporting party Swedish Democratic Party3 (SD), language requirements have been afforded a secure position in the overall discourse on integration and immigration, characterized by an emphasis on stringency, urgency, and restrictiveness. (lu.se)
  • I believe I would still caucus for him," said the 70-year-old retired communications administrator from Ankeny while attending a candidate interview series led by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. (wkrn.com)
  • The Tea Party Caucus had formed in Congress with 52 members the previous summer, reflecting the popularity of the label in the wake of the 2010 midterms. (wpsu.org)
  • The election results put an end to the rise of Erdogan, while it opened a new page for the HDP to provide a new focus of opposition at the national level, and for the leading Kurdish national movement (KM) that leads the party to reshape the Kurdish space beyond Turkey's borders. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Although some Kurdish nationalists contend that the Turkey-ization and Kurdistanization are two opposing political projects, the results of the June 7 election confirmed that the autonomous construction of a political space in the Kurdish region and the construction of Kurdish oppositions as an integral part of Turkey's politics are two interrelated parallel processes. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Since the foundation of the HDP, BDP has re-organized itself as a regional party to construct an autonomous political and administrative space in the Kurdish region. (opendemocracy.net)
  • The re-construction of the DBP and DTK at the regional level, the reshaping their political agenda on the basis of the construction of Kurdish self-government in the Kurdish region can be conceptualized as the Kurdistanization strategy. (opendemocracy.net)
  • Turkey's ruling party appears to be on a quest to weaken the Kurdish political movement by promoting divisions and polarization in the Kurdish community. (al-monitor.com)
  • A supporter of Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP opposition party fires a gun as he celebrates the election results outside the party headquarters in Diyarbakir, Turkey, Nov. 1, 2015. (al-monitor.com)
  • The strong result of the HDP in the June 7 polls resulted in intensified efforts by Erdogan and the AKP to curb the party, polarize the Kurdish electorate and weaken and reshape the Kurdish political scene. (al-monitor.com)
  • The July 20 suicide bombing in Suruc, which targeted pro-Kurdish activists, came as a watershed, marking both the escalating threat of the Islamic State and the resumption of terrorist attacks by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). (al-monitor.com)
  • The AKP is targeting the conservative Kurdish electorate that Tan says remains with the HDP, and it is likely to coax the HDP's conservative and moderate Islamist lawmakers in defecting and creating a new party for the next elections, in 2019 or earlier. (al-monitor.com)
  • In this context, the possibility of the AKP cajoling the HDP's conservative lawmakers into defecting and creating a moderate Islamist Kurdish party as an AKP ally in parliament cannot be ruled out. (al-monitor.com)
  • The clear electoral winner in these elections was the KPÖ. (marxist.com)
  • In its June 7 election campaign, the HDP used the slogan "We won't let you become an executive president," a reference to Erdogan's ambitions to create a presidential system, which considerably boosted the HDP's appeal and assisted it in passing the 10% national threshold that Turkish electoral law requires to enter parliament. (al-monitor.com)
  • The impact of the unfolding war on terrorism in both Afghanistan and Iraq has principally been in the entrenching of the newly emergent fundamentalist parties in electoral politics there at the cost of the mainstream parties. (indiatogether.org)
  • For the United States and other nations, the questions are how best to engage with China's leaders to reshape Chinese policies. (csis.org)
  • This implies that India requires simultaneously and progressively to engage Pakistan, reverse political encroachment on Kashmiri jurisdiction and rein in its security forces. (indiatogether.org)
  • This has allowed green parties to capture a growing share of the educated, urban electorate, establishing themselves as a major force on the left. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Unless left-of-center parties can find a way to widen their shrinking electorate, they will likely keep losing to the right. (democracyjournal.org)
  • This while China remains the largest supplier of cheaply manufactured products from the US with computers forming a large segment that it exports to poorer countries like India (a patently privatized state and criminalized with institutionalized corruption - thus beyond illiberalism or repair but publicly cited as a multi-party democracy in such think-tank articles) whose populace's access to computers and other modern gadgets largely survive upon Chinese exports. (project-syndicate.org)
  • During the last two decades, as Jenkins's book shows, Great Britain's political life has undergone the most radical and abrupt shift of any Western democracy since the Second World War. (nybooks.com)
  • With few exceptions, just about every factory town in a major democracy was the natural possession of the political left: Whether in Hull or in Sindelfingen, in Scranton or in Brisbane, most workers reliably voted for the parties that fought for union rights, higher wages, and generous social services. (democracyjournal.org)
  • He had been a Democrat before flirting with a third-party presidential bid in 2000. (wpsu.org)
  • By the end of the decade, however, the political, economic, and foreign policy consensus had begun to fray. (billofrightsinstitute.org)
  • A small fire department in rural Indiana is determined not to fail new moms and babies, the growing election denial movement has caused voting districts to change procedures and autumn promises spectacular scenery along America's rural byways. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • The conservative party (ÖVP) faced a bruising defeat, with only 25.91 percent of votes (down 11.88 percent compared to 2017). (marxist.com)
  • The party came in first with 28.84 percent of the votes (an increase of 8.5 percent compared to 2017) - its best-ever result. (marxist.com)
  • Border controls on incoming EU goods remain absent, the UK quality mark is effectively shelved, pointless confrontation with the EU has ended, and the Retained EU Law Act largely neutralised. (politicshome.com)
  • the HDP lost over 911,818 votes of the total it had gained in the June 7 elections, which went largely to the AKP . (al-monitor.com)
  • The Tea Party was driven largely by hostility to former President Obama. (wpsu.org)
  • The first signal came ahead of the June 7 polls as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blasted a 10-point road map agreed between government representatives and the HDP as part of the settlement process. (al-monitor.com)
  • Add to this, recent protests following a controversial meeting in Rome between the foreign ministers of Libya and Israel, raised the spectre of a disconnect between Middle East and governments and public opinion. (tunein.com)
  • The attack, which occurred just a week after the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, came after months of protests and claims of election fraud by Bolsonaro's supporters after the close presidential vote in October. (wordandway.org)
  • Additionally, religious expressions permeated the pro-Bolsonaro protests against the election results in the months leading up to Sunday's riot. (wordandway.org)
  • He has included virtually every event of political importance since 1979. (nybooks.com)
  • Business elites wielded outsize power at virtually every level of government, which they exercised to defeat social programs and to criminalize labor organizing and protest. (nplusonemag.com)
  • The municipal elections in Austria's second-biggest city, Graz, were a political earthquake. (marxist.com)
  • Not a stone was left standing of the previous administration after the municipal elections in the capital city of the Styria-province on 26 September. (marxist.com)
  • Communist Party of Austria wins the municipal election Graz, with 28.8% of the votes. (marxist.com)
  • The 1970s reform faction dominated Toronto politics for the next decade. (wikipedia.org)
  • This chapter explores the developing politics of the region from the early 1970s to the events of early 2005, when the election of a new Palestinian prime minister and the proposed removal of Israeli settlements in some of the Occupied Territories brought new hope for peace. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Political wars were fought over which party could administer the developing welfare state more wisely and efficiently. (nybooks.com)
  • The conflict that molded generations of American elites has ceased to function as the framing paradigm of American politics. (nplusonemag.com)
  • Individuals like Steve Bannon and Ali Alexander , who pushed false U.S. election fraud claims ahead of Jan. 6, more recently attacked the legitimacy of the Brazilian election results and now praise those who attacked government buildings in Brasília. (wordandway.org)
  • Some in the Tea Party movement also cast doubt on Obama's legitimacy as president, insisting he had been born in Africa. (wpsu.org)
  • During the election a non-binding referendum was held in the city, and found overwhelming support for amalgamation. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is due to the difficulty of documenting presence when one is undocumented, high filing fees, disqualification for minor criminal convictions, lack of reliable legal services, and ingrained distrust of the government. (openborders.info)
  • The ability to create new technologies, particularly digital technologies (given their importance for politics, security, and economic growth) have become key factors in the U.S.-China relationship, which is marked by close commercial cooperation and deep governmental distrust. (csis.org)
  • In opinion polls, many of the American left's economic ideas command majoritarian support , while its positions on most social issues are more popular than the conservative movement's. (nymag.com)
  • A little more than a dozen years ago, a new movement erupted in American politics calling itself "the Tea Party. (wpsu.org)
  • Peter Jenkins, the leading political journalist in Britain, has written a long and excellent book about the last two decades of British political history, a book that combines reporting and scholarship, journalism and history. (nybooks.com)
  • Two decades earlier, the postwar Labour government of Clement Attlee had begun a comprehensive program that aimed sharply to reduce the inequalities in income, education, housing, and medicine that had seemed inevitable consequences of British capitalism and its class system. (nybooks.com)
  • To understand the real predicament facing the left in Western Europe, North America, and beyond, it is therefore necessary to recognize these developments as different manifestations of the same underlying trend: In most developed democracies, social and cultural issues have, over the past decades, displaced economic ones as the principal political cleavage. (democracyjournal.org)
  • Problem is, soon the wall will collapse on them," conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham wrote in a Twitter message last week. (nbcnews.com)
  • The victory of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) shows a categorical rejection of the hated bourgeois establishment that has managed the city for years, and opens up a perspective of a broad offense against social welfare cuts and an end to Graz's tenure as a private investors' paradise. (marxist.com)
  • Like Klich, many of the older protesters were reliving their days of battling the communist government. (politico.eu)
  • On Sunday (Jan. 8), thousands of supporters of now-former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ransacked multiple government buildings, including the Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace. (wordandway.org)
  • Israeli politics became deeply divided over how to deal with Palestinians and surrounding Arab countries, but a strong desire for peace influenced almost all political movements during this time period. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Sending the party leaders a wake up call loud enough to annoy Pete Townsend, Georgie must have decided the nomination was already sewn up, so it was time to position himself for the general election, which definitely means butt splinters o' plenty from fence straddling. (motherjones.com)
  • Moreover, Standard & Poor's has, for the first time, downgraded Poland's foreign currency rating - from A- to BBB+ - and warned of perhaps more cuts to come as it accuses the government of weakening "the independence and effectiveness of key institutions. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The government emphasizes that deferred action is completely discretionary and can be revoked at any time and for any reason. (openborders.info)
  • Long-time mayor Siegfried Nagl announced his resignation on election night and handed his office over to his vice-chairman Kurt Hohensinner. (marxist.com)
  • Others are just as adamant that the time has come to pivot from the figure who reshaped their party. (wkrn.com)
  • Led for the first time by a real and long-time Brexit believer, the Conservatives have ironically started to recalibrate. (politicshome.com)
  • It wasn't the first time the 57-year-old minority leader of the Polish senate had taken on his government. (politico.eu)
  • Since a Chicagoan was in the White House most of that time, national and local politics often melded. (pressthink.org)
  • Some believers visiting the Grand Mosque of Paris for Friday prayers cautiously welcomed the idea, while others worry it's going too far in trying to control their faith, or say that the government has singled out Islamic institutions but would not dare suggest such changes to Christian ones. (breitbart.com)
  • After the election, Bolsonaro's party sought unsuccessfully to convince judges to invalidate votes. (wordandway.org)
  • Mexicans are pouring across the border and they are bringing crime, they are bringing drugs and they are raping America's women. (consortiumnews.com)
  • A recent Thanksgiving post by far-left Democrat New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham could give New Mexicans a clue of who the first gentleman, or as Lujan Grisham calls him, the "First Manny" (Manny Cordova) really is. (pinonpost.com)
  • George Osborne on Labour in crisis, the Corbyn danger, UK intervention in Syria, David Cameron, and why the Chancellor wants to capture and reshape the centre ground of British politics. (newstatesman.com)
  • The NS editor, Jason Cowley , speaks to the Chancellor, George Osborne , about Labour in crisis, Jeremy Corbyn, foreign wars and whether he will stand for Conservative leader. (newstatesman.com)
  • In New Hampshire, he tip-toes around the explosive abortion rights issue, discusses ongoing Israeli military operations, promises he'll secure the Mexican border and warns that the current administration's fiscal insanity will cause more inflation, not reduce it. (wlns.com)
  • Other religious imagery in the crowd included someone waving an Israeli flag as another member of the mob proudly held up a confiscated artifact from a nearby government building. (wordandway.org)