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US Democrats Squabble Over Lessons of UK Election

Jamie Dettmer

   Hours before the official result was complete for Britain's general
   election, U.S. Democrats on the other side of the Atlantic were taking
   to social-media sites to draw quick conclusions on what Labour's
   catastrophic defeat might mean for them and the electoral challenge
   they face with the 2020 White House contest.

   Forewarned by an exit poll, which suggested Britain's storied Labour
   Party was heading for its worst election rebuff since 1935, one of the
   first Democrats to hit the send button was Ben Rhodes, a former deputy
   national security advisor to Barack Obama.

   He tweeted: "There are a lot of factors that went into this massive
   defeat, but progressives have to learn from them to do better on both
   sides of the Atlantic."

   But that begs the crucial question: what lessons?

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