The strange death of the center-left

[Geee]

Washington Examiner:

In 1935, George Dangerfield published The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-1914, a vivid account of how Britain's center-left Liberal Party, dominant for a century, collapsed amid conflicts it could not resolve.

 

The Liberal Party then appeared impregnable. Its cabinet in 1910 included Herbert Asquith, in the midst of the longest consecutive prime ministership between the Duke of Liverpool and Margaret Thatcher, and future wartime leaders David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. But after 1910, the party never won an election again.

 

What got me thinking about Dangerfield's delightfully written book were political developments here and in Britain — the monster crowds flocking to hear Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on the West Coast and the likelihood that the far-left Jeremy Corbyn will be elected next month to head Britain's Labour party.