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Progressives are still so pessimistic, but why? The populist right can and will be defeated | Andy Beckett

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The Guardian US FIRST 41m ago Progressives are still so pessimistic, but why? The populist right can and will be defeated | Andy Beckett
From the US midterms to Brazil and Hungary, extremists are floundering yet the left still overestimates their power. Reality is on our side From Brazil to Hungary and Britain to the US, why are so many people so surprised by the right’s election defeats? Flávio Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, Reform UK, the Tories and a vast array of Republican candidates have all been rejected in national or local contests this year, even in usually reliably conservative Mississippi. Apparently impregnable incumbents