The global anti-incumbent wave extends beyond Washington as voters worldwide rejected traditional political parties in 2024.
As the newly sworn-in Republican Congress on Monday formalized Donald Trump’s election win, it’s worth widening the lens for the global context: Last year, voters worldwide delivered a striking rebuke to incumbents and traditional political parties on both the right and left, propelled by sour feelings over inflation, deepening cultural divisions, international conflicts and frustration with the status quo and political elites.
In fact, the incumbent party lost almost every Western election in 2024. And heading into 2025, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a mid-December no-confidence vote, setting the stage for elections next month, while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing internal revolt, said Monday that he would resign as prime minister and leader of his Liberal Party ahead of 2025 elections there. The trends crossed ideological and continental boundaries. In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party saw its 14-year rule end in its worst electoral loss since 1832. For the first time in nearly 60 years, Botswana’s Democratic Party lost control in a dramatic defea
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