Since 1979, the left has only managed to install 4 people in the White House or Downing Street:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten">Bill Clinton
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten">Barack Obama
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches">Tony Blair
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches">Gordon Brown

The right has established two advantages: competence & intellectual dynamism https://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

The first is a traditional advantage of conservatism.

Both Republicans and the Tories have based their electoral appeal on the idea that they will do a better job of looking after your money and protecting your country than the other guys http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

However, the right has also been more dynamic.

Since 1979, modern conservatism has produced many important ideas that have changed the political universe, from privatization to welfare reform to “broken windows” crime policy http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

Of course, there were ups and downs in this era of conservative dominance — George W. Bush’s Iraq war — but the right has generally managed to stay on the “good government” side of things.

That is, until recently http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

In 2020, the West is being menaced by a deadly virus. Voters are craving security and competence. You might imagine that conservatives would have redoubled their advantage.

Yet the conservative sun is fading http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

In the U.S., the polls indicate that Donald Trump is likely to lose the presidency to 78-year old Joe Biden, while the Senate may change hands as well.

In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s popularity has plummeted http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

Driving all this is Covid — and the right’s inability to handle it.

In both Britain and America, the supposedly competent side of the political spectrum has failed in its basic task of protecting its citizens from the virus http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten">In the U.S., the number of deaths per million inhabitants is close to 650; https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches">in Britain it is 655. By comparison:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada">Canada: around 250
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇩🇪" title="Flagge von Deutschland" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Deutschland">Germany: 120
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇦🇺" title="Flagge von Australien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Australien">Australia, https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇿" title="Flagge von Neuseeland" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Neuseeland">New Zealand, https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇸🇬" title="Flagge von Singapur" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Singapur">Singapore, https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇰🇷" title="Flagge von Südkorea" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Südkorea">South Korea, https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇹🇼" title="Flagge des Taiwan" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Taiwan">Taiwan: below 50 http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...

On Oct. 1, more new cases were announced in the Trump White House than in these countries combined:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇹🇼" title="Flagge des Taiwan" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Taiwan">Taiwan
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇻🇳" title="Flagge von Vietnam" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Vietnam">Vietnam
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇿" title="Flagge von Neuseeland" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Neuseeland">New Zealand

The economies of the best performers are all recovering strongly too http://trib.al/mALxUdZ ">https://trib.al/mALxUdZ&q...