The backlash against Trump’s nativist vision shows the US is not following the UK’s path
After the UK Labour party’s humiliating general election defeat, “moderate” Democratic presidential candidates and commentators in the US urged the Democrats to learn the lessons of Brexit and Donald Trump: don’t veer too far-left and make radical promises.
Meanwhile, Steve Bannon, the president’s former adviser, correctly reminded progressives in Britain and the US that “Brexit and Trump were inextricably linked in 2016”. He then provocatively — and incorrectly — added: “They are inextricably linked today.”