Outsiders have trouble understanding Irish politics. Because Ireland is an Anglophone country with large diasporas located in the United Kingdom and the United States, it is assumed that politics should behave a little bit like the two nations who pump so much influence back into it through the mass media produced in London, New York, and Hollywood.
But it’s not like its Anglophone peers at all. And in the process, Ireland has largely missed “the vibe shift” that is happening in first-world politics, where progressive overreach that stretched to its limit during Covid is giving in to conservative backlash and revisionism.
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