The Partido Popular shifted far enough from the centre to lose votes on its left, while legitimising a competitor to its right.
There are better ways to describe the problem of left-wing bias – such as what I would more accurately describe as identity politics, or postmodernism.
Plus: Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe. Tommy Robinson – and how Batten is wrecking UKIP. Can Farage save it?
The brutal reality is that Britain needs the country the President governs – and so by extension needs him too.
Together they turned the liberal establishment’s own weapons against it