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You can come and see all of our rabbis wasted. [laughter]. And speaking of things that drive us to drink, a few weeks into the new year year and decade, the reality has set in for us all. For now undeniably in 2020, approaching one of the anticipated and polarized american president ial elections of all time. The 2016 elections results were shocking to many of us. It seemed that we didnt know our country, our communities, or even her friends as well as we thought we did. The aftermath had people questioning peoples deep rooted values. Tonight we are thrilled to welcome ezra klein back in dc to make sense of it all and to share his perspective of how the polarization has been growing roots for decades. And why we are polarized. He asserts that american political system isnt broken but rather is working exactly as it was designed. Aezra klein shows us how disastrous results are Building Bonds to pull us together. The editor at large, vox cofounder ezra klein and executive producer on the
Hour with a closer look at todays headline news. International. If youre watching in the u. K. Where all things are considered. It is relatively easy to explain the tory spectacular victory in the general election for the elites it was about. But for the voters it was all about indeed it was brags that 2. 00 joe it is time to deliver and. Goes to washington. Prost talking some real news im joined by my us going to use and he is a professor at the Higher School of economics as well as author of the nikkei of western civilization and we surgeons of russia we also have Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius hes a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com hi gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate lets go to london alexander the dust is settling ok about this general election the blow out of the labor is
With you no no less my friend this is a humiliation and again you know having so many parts of the country traditionally going labor went to the other side that is something quite spectacular absolutely and this is the key point to understand because what has happened is that labor has lost ground heavily in its working class northern english midlands heartlands whereas he has held on surprisingly well in the sort of solves and middle class yeah fluent consumer girls which he won over in the 1990 is under tony blair and the reason is rexs i mean ive seen endless explanation. Out this is there is no question at all about this working class england has never liked. They voted against it when version joined in 975 in the referendum and then theyve been consistently hostile they made it absolutely clear that they were hostile in the 2016 referendum when they voted against it and they feel bitterly angry and very betrayed by their party the labor party which went into this election taking w
Of them majority of them voted tory what is going on this is a earthquake in british politics it was an earthquake in british politics but essential to qualify and ive seen many places this claim about labor having its worst results since 9935. 00 this is highly misleading ok if you look at the percentage of the vote labor goes around 32. 00 said that hes more than he got in 20152010 in 19879092 its simply not the number of them he says that he got in the house of commons and that is a reflection of a rather strange electoral system and the fact that labor in 2015 lost around 50 and hes ok. It out but identities may be ok but ok thats why we have this program here i agree with you no no less my friend this is a humiliation and again you know having so many parts of the country traditionally going labor went to the other side that is something quite spectacular absolutely and this is the key point to understand because what has happened is that labor has lost ground heavily in its worki