Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Recent electoral swings globally suggest less of a global left or right turn but rather anti-incumbency bias. In the UK Labor was blown out a few years ago only for the Conservatives to be blown out next election. In France the FN is coming to power amid a broader polarization and rejection of centrist parties. I would not be surprised to see trends reverse again in a few years. The challenge incumbents everywhere are facing is how to generate a convincing narrative of growth and optimism once in power and no one seems to have found the key to this.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Do you think it’s a reasonable response to actually subpar performance or more a product of failed narrative building?
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
It’s a great question. I think a lot of perception of performance is based on expectations and they have not lived up to those.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Hmmm. Is the expectation mismatch a function of how electioneering basically works today?
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