just egypt, but africa, feel betrayed because president obama turned away from them and he is supporting a increasingly dictatorial government. and you re seeing the arab spring turn quickly into a muslim brotherhood winter. megyn: how is it president obama s fault or america s fault? they re the ones who wanted the arab spring, wanted mubarak out. no, we didn t stop it, sat along and sort of encouraged it, but that s what they wanted. they wound up with a leader who, you know, is cutting down on the press and has all sorts of questionable measures, ignoring the parliament and so on. but how is it our fault? well, it s our fault in their minds, for two reasons. one, people still think that america can wave a magic wand and make anything happen and secondly, obama didn t have to embrace morsi, he doesn t have
british politics. when tony blair came to power in 1997, he basically took the best ideases of thatcherism, kept them going and pushed them farth farther. that left the british conservatives far to the right, taking eccentric positions on issues. it left them without their big ideas. their big ideas were simply the ideas that tony blair was pursuing using different language and in some different ways. and they have been a marginal party. you know, in a two-party system you always have some votes. they haven t had much influence on british politics for the last 12 years. recovering from that has been a major trauma. they now have a leader who he s very impressive, very young. he has not said very much. we don t know what he thinks about. and this is, i think, deliberate, because the conservatives are so wary of offending people again, so wary of scaring people again, that they had to put somebody like