How the Irish Left Explains U.S. Democrats

How the Irish Left Explains U.S. Democrats

Democrats have often looked to European political parties for examples of what to do to win (Denmark’s Social Democrats) or what not to do to avoid losing (Britain’s Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn). The most instructive example, however, might be a place they rarely think of as fertile ground for the left: Ireland.That examination reveals that a broad-based majority left ultimately rests on winning large shares of the working class. And even i…