The UK election was a huge disaster not only for the Conservative Party, which called for the snap election three months ago under the impression it would give them the mandate that comes with a landslide, but also centrists in the Labor party, who hated and constantly stabbed the back of the leader of their party, Jeremy Corbyn—an unforgiving and principled leftist. What does Corbyn say to his voters with no shame? I'm going to take money from the rich and give it the poor. This was the crux and clarity of his manifesto. This is what excited younger voters. This is why the Conservatives lost the majority and are now scrambling to form a government. The death of centrism and the weakening of the Conservative party also means austerity has lost considerable political power and Brexit has been thrown into confusion.

Though Corbyn is the UK's Bernie Sanders, the latter has never faced the kind of attacks that, until last night's victories, were coming from every sector of the media, government, and business. Even the state-owned BBC despised Corbyn. His open opposition to all that matters to what Sanders calls "the billionaire class" was just too much for the kind of politics that has dominated the UK and the US since the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s. Believing all of the bad news in the press about Corbyn, and seeing so many centrists committed to the destruction of their leader, the Conservative party—which had a majority in parliament after the 2015 election (when it soundly defeated the centrist-led Labor party, which even received support from Obama's team)—saw an opportunity to finally overthrow and bury their old rival in the landfill of history.

What difference a day can make.

We have woken up to a different UK, Europe, and US. Progressive Dems now have hard evidence. Their policies can be popular. If you want to get up on things, then I recommend reading this post, "A Different Country," by the brilliant political commentator Richard Seymour.