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To achieve majorities, the socially conservative protectionists had to unite with the remnants of the Thatcher-Reagan laissez faire movement, who resent the interventionist economic management of the post-2008 period and want to intensify the competition, deregulation, and globalization that social conservatives resent.
This way, minorities become easily manipulated majorities.
When the poorest countries – most of them in Africa or with Muslim majorities – choose to sustain and even devise new policies that oppress women, we have to be willing to say that, in some measure, they are choosing the economic misfortune that follows.
Finally, it follows that in the future, Merkel and Sarkozy, in particular, will have to struggle a lot more than before for electoral majorities.
Today, these majorities are less certain than ever.
From now on, governments will have to fight for majorities supporting the euro.
Mocking the ways and beliefs of minorities is not quite the same thing as taking on the cherished habits and views of majorities.
With this "us versus them" view of the world, it was not hard to rally voters, from the most disenfranchised all the way up to the salaried middle class--more than enough for the left to secure electoral majorities.
If the Republicans lose their majorities in either or both houses of Congress, and if Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel in the Russia investigation, presents his findings around the same time, then Trump will feel his power quickly eroding.
Majorities in each group also agreed that global warming will harm the natural environment and future generations, and that reducing global warming would help the environment and future generations.
Governing majorities (and therefore elections) in Germany are always won in the center.
In fact, his administration, backed by Republican majorities in both houses of the US Congress, will likely only make things worse for hard-pressed Americans.
That’s why Trump racked up large majorities in so many working-class bastions that had previously supported Obama.
Achieving, at long last, re-election of parliamentary representatives; calling a referendum to amend the Constitution; creating a hybrid, semi-presidential, semi-parliamentary system that will encourage the formation of legislative majorities in a three-party environment; allowing independent candidates to run for office, thus forcing party realignment; and abolishing the US-style campaign-financing, where air time is purchased instead of allotted, and which led to Sunday’s election probably being, dollar for vote, the most expensive in the world.
So if a Shia threat organized by Iran really does exist, why is it being ignored by those that it purportedly targets – the Sunni Arab majorities?
In such a scenario, self-empowered minorities come to speak in the name of imaginary majorities – a populism of sorts, and, like all populism, driven by emotions more than by norms, let alone reasons.
Thus, the US Congress, it was supposed, would enact the ACA with healthy and bipartisan majorities, and Obama would demonstrate that he could transcend Washington’s partisan gridlock.
Portugal, Spain, and Ireland have shown that democratic majorities are no longer willing to endure the cure-or-kill treatment of austerity politics.
Now they are significant and active players (as majorities or strong minorities) in all the big companies of the developed world.
Opinion polls show popular majorities in support of NATO and the US-Japan alliance.
They reject the principle that there is a law which is superior to presidents, magnates, majorities, or mobs.
Majorities may not.
With little trust in existing institutions to implement reforms, Djindjic often took shortcuts, using extra-legal means and improvised parliamentary majorities to push through legislation.
And yet no government, not even those of Silvio Berlusconi, which held comfortable parliamentary majorities, could accomplish more than piecemeal reforms in specific areas, such as pensions.
Normalizing ItalyLONDON – Italy’s political exceptionalism – its chronic inability to marshal coherent governments backed by stable parliamentary majorities – is weakening Europe and threatening the eurozone’s survival.
In the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, strong Republican majorities were viewed as a repudiation of President Barack Obama.
Of course, enacting that agenda would require a Democratic president and majorities in both chambers of Congress.
To facilitate his ambitions, Abe hopes to scale down the requirement to simple majorities in both chambers or eliminate the need for a public referendum.
Large majorities on both sides--perhaps two-thirds or even three-fourths of each population--would accept a return by Israel to something like its pre-1967 borders in exchange for real peace.
A solution is possible only if the outside world is prepared to police an agreement reached between the moderate majorities.
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