While Trump is a powerful force within the Republican Party, his polarising presence is creating substantial challenges for the party in appealing to a broad enough coalition to secure consistent, nationwide victories beyond his core base.
Even Jake Sullivan, former United States president Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said “the Washington Consensus is a promise that was not kept[.]”
Mamdani’s recent ... victory provides South Africa’s progressives with a stark, universal lesson: sometimes, facing a flawed political party head-on ... is the only way to change it.