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.

When the codebase is so legacy and broken that you can never build new features or increase performance and charismatic mids pitching rewrites keep convincing management to try their new magical idea (it doesn’t work and makes things worse)