Like Americans, Britons are jettisoning longtime political allegiances in a sign of new cultural divides.

Guest op-ed by Matthew Goodman & Eric Kaufmann @ NYTimes.com, Dec. 21. Goodwin is a professor of politics at the University of Kent, England, and a senior visiting fellow at Chatham House and co-author, with Roger Eatwell, of “National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy.” Kaufmann is a professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London and the author of “Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities.”

Sophisticated thoughts on topic, and including some graphs.; sample excerpt:

[....] If, as research from the Voter Study Group showed, the average American voter is left on economics and right on culture, then this zone is the sweet spot for both the Republican and Democratic Parties. Yet as the British writer David Goodhart notes, Labour, like many Western left parties, finds it much more difficult to speak to the identity anxieties of the median voter over immigration, family and national identity.

Conversely, the right is generally able to shift toward higher public spending. Under President Trump, for instance, the deficit has skyrocketed to approach a staggering $1 trillion. In Britain, Mr. Johnson promised higher expenditure on public services, raising the minimum wage and offering more state aid for failing businesses [....]