but e.g. where welfare programs are being cut following the current crisis, it’s certainly not the liberals but economically conservative governments championing the cuts.
What’s happening is, to paraphrase Thacher, that governments are running out of other people’s money. Yes, conservative parties are more willing to acknowledge this fact, but liberal parties don’t have any viable alternatives and it was their economic policies that lead to this state of affairs.
The places that are being hardest hit have been ruled by left wing parties for most of the time since at least the 1970s. Also in these places the right wing parties aren’t all that right wing.
What’s happening is, to paraphrase Thacher, that governments are running out of other people’s money. Yes, conservative parties are more willing to acknowledge this fact, but liberal parties don’t have any viable alternatives and it was their economic policies that lead to this state of affairs.
Hmm? And in places where fiscally conservative parties were at the helm before the crisis? What about them?
The places that are being hardest hit have been ruled by left wing parties for most of the time since at least the 1970s. Also in these places the right wing parties aren’t all that right wing.
Are the Scandinavian nations among the ones hit hardest? Or, say, Poland?