Much of the democratic world has moved or is moving to the political right, including not only the USA but also much of the EU.
The UK with its huge Labour Party majority in parliament's House of Commons, is a clear exception. Thus we have Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister
Although the Americans do not overtly label their "Democratic" party as left wing, in realty surely that is what they are. Had I been a voter in the USA I would have not been attracted to vote for Trump or Harris both of whose parties seem more extreme than their UK counterpart political parties whether Tory of Labour. Possibly a vote for an independent candidate would have been my answer.
However in the UK, right wing politicians are also making their influence felt in the form of the Reform Party of Nigel Farage. Indeed a recent opinion poll places Reform ahead of all other political parties here. Not least because the Labour government with its huge majority has only recently been elected I doubt that the opinion poll at this stage means very much at all.
Furthermore Reform has few policies and little track record as a party, though Nigel Farage its leader was under the former UKIP politicians, instrumental in securing the UK Brexit vote under which the country departed from the now increasingly right wing, EU.
Reverting to. President Trump; early days yet but from what I have read so far, of the autobiography of Pope Francis, entitled Hope, from his chapter on mankind's commonality, and from Trump's actions already taken, of forcing undocumented immigrants, some of long residence in the USA, to Mexico or their 'homelands', the prospects seem bleak to me.'.
Add to the above, President Trump's spoken threats on world trade, Greenland and The Panama Canal, the world's prospects for the next few years seem grey at best..
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