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Over Mulroney's sputtered rejoinder, the Liberal leader's attack struck a nerve with the 6 million viewers who tuned in to the exchange. Turner's critics argued that he had fallen on the nationalist strategy not so much out of principle but out of desperation: down in the polls, they said, he faced ouster as his party's leader if the Liberal campaign failed. But the tactic worked: within four days, the Liberals enjoyed, according to one poll, a 4- point lead...
What happened? In all three countries, the left-of-center party has allowed the party of the right to become the nationalist party and claim all the national icons, foremost among them the flag. In Britain, Labor has never recovered from its embrace of unilateral disarmament. In Israel, where politics does not suffer from subtlety, Likud and its allies simply call themselves "the national camp." Of course, parties of the right always appeal to nationalism. But formerly the nationalist idea was successfully challenged by an equally compelling idea: socialism or social democracy...
...Britain, Israel and the U.S., the social-democratic party has completed its historic and heroic task of creating the structure of the modern welfare state. Its agenda enacted, the party has run out of energy and ideas. Consequently, the party of the right, with its claim on the nationalist idea and all its attendant emotional and political power, has been handed the game almost by default...
Which is why the most successful left-of-center parties are precisely those that have seized the nationalist issue themselves. Take the French Socialists. There is no great debate in France about its place in the world. The Socialists learned decades ago to accept the Gaullist vision of French grandeur, with all the trappings, military (e.g., the force de frappe) and geopolitical (e.g., the intervention in Chad). Not surprisingly, the Socialists keep winning. This year Francois Mitterrand became the first President of the Fifth Republic to win re-election...
...WORLD: Nationalist movements in the Baltic republics and Armenia pose dramatic challenges for the Soviet Union...