Luke MacGregor / Reuters Stephen Harper in Canada. Tony Abbott in Australia. John Key in New Zealand. And now, impressively re-elected, a second-term David Cameron in the United Kingdom. Center-right leaders are in charge of every one of America’s closest English-speaking allies. Only in the United States does the liberal left govern. With Hillary Clinton holding strong leads in the polls over all her likely opponents, this form of “American exceptionalism” looks likely to persist for some time to come. Why? Their American detractors may grumble, but these other conservatives are indeed “real conservatives” (Harper and Abbott tend to be …read more
Source: The Atlantic
