The Left Turns Right
The Left Turns Right What are we to make of the Anglosphere political leadership’s abrupt narrative reversal towards immigration restrictionism and rhetorical nativism? John Carter In the wake of America’s 2024 election a curious narrative shift has been unfolding within the political leadership of Canada and Great Britain. The moment he assumed the office of Prime Minister, Canada’s Mark Carney played up the country’s founding British and French (and, of course, Indigenous) heritage, referring to Canada as the ‘most European of non-European countries’ , deploying nativist rhetoric that hasn’t been heard from the country’s Liberal politicians in living memory and thereby rejecting by implication the official stance of multiculturalism that has dominated Canadian politics since the elder Trudeau. To back up his commitment to Canada, Carney renounced his Irish and UK citizenships , symbolically burning his boats on the beach, and implicitly repudiating other membe...