3 Takeaways for Democrats from U.K.’s Conservative “Landslide” Victory

With the thumping victory of Boris Johnson and the Tories in last week’s election — they added (as of this posting) 48 new seats to achieve a stunning 78-seat majority in Parliament — nerves on this side of the Atlantic immediately began tingling: What does this portend for Democrats in 2020?

While it’s difficult to compare a parliamentary system with our representative system, a review of the campaign itself that Johnson and conservatives waged yields some takeaways for Democrats as they seek to defeat Donald…