What the Left Doesn’t Get About Morena

What the Left Doesn’t Get About Morena

A year after Claudia Sheinbaum and the ruling Morena party’s landslide victories in Mexico, the immensely popular Mexican president has become a progressive icon north of the border. “Is Claudia Sheinbaum the anti-Trump?” asked Michelle Goldberg in The New York Times. The sentiment isn’t unfounded. In less than a decade, the party founded by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador—known as AMLO—upended Mexican politics, securing resounding …