THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Benjamin Schwarz) - Burnham, Populist?
The right must consider the possibility that the new prime minister may in fact be good at politics. The post Burnham, Populist? appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Burnham, Populist? The right must consider the possibility that the new prime minister may in fact be good at politics. UK Special Coverage Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images Since Andy Burnham assumed the office of Prime Minister on July 20, most of the right-leaning publications and commentators in the United Kingdom have greeted his every policy pronouncement as vague, insubstantial, and/or impossible to carry out. Those criticisms are largely spot-on. But the tribally-driven dishonesty characteristic of what now passes as political coverage and analysis dictates that those…Open