No other country’s recent past offers a clearer preview of America’s potential future. US and UK both sought suitorsAt a time when the rest of the world is looking for alternatives to the dollar, Britain’s decline offers another parallel. Like the Trump administration, Britain took pains to find countries that still wanted to align with it politically. British stagflation offers lessons to USAmericans might also draw lessons from Britain’s protectionism during the stagflationary 1970s. Now that Maga has taken over the Republican Party, and the Democrats are deeply divided between centrists and leftists, the British party system’s implosion offers a final preview of America’s future.

Source: Irish Examiner March 03, 2026 13:10 UTC