Why Europe’s Center Left Can’t Stop Losing

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Europe’s social democratic parties are shrinking, and their leaders don’t seem to know how to reverse the trend. For much of the 20th century, center-left parties based on unions and industrial workers were among Europe’s dominant political forces. (AP Photo/William Stevens, File) But today, many of them are politically unrecognizable. The most recent example is Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats, who suffered a dramatic …