To the CPS, the think-tank home of Thatcherite free-thinking. On today’s agenda: a sermon from Frank Luntz, the onetime populist Republican sage now reborn as a crusader for cleaner politics. The master of political vocabulary – responsible for such terms as ‘death tax’ and ‘climate change’ – has seen the light and is in the UK to warn of the dangers of the anti-elitist populism he once championed. Luntz told an audience of assembled hacks today that the cost of living crisis is feeding ‘the rejection of democracy as we know it’ with disastrous consequences for the body politic in both Britain and America.
The Coke-drinking Cassandra argues that a lack of political responsibility is corroding public life and that the elites in Washington and Westminster simply don’t understand the economic pain that many ordinary voters are going through. ‘It is a mistake to assume that the average individual waits for the declaration of a recession when they already think you’re living in,’ according to Luntz. Yet
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