Social democratic parties today

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Canadian NDP - Probably in a better state than most on this list due to the realistic possibility (this IS Canada after all) that they could win the next federal election with 68% of the vote and all but two seats. Still, pretty sucky that, after decades of effort, their time in OO was so brief.

It is Canada, but the chances of the NDP winning the next election are next to nil. It's hard to predict what will happen right now as they are leaderless, though. I think right now only someone like Jagmeet Singh could save the party (a minority, charismatic, young) in the near term. Of course, nobody knows who he is now, but he is a rock star in the making.

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In a way, social democratic parties have been victims of their own success. They accomplished much of their goals in the post-war period and are struggling to re-invent themselves, often becoming champions of neo-liberalism as they triangulate towards the political centre. In the meantime, splintering their base as new leftist and/or environmental parties emerge.

Of course, their time will come again (or at least with a new re-aligned left) as we head into this new age of inequality and climate change. We're already seeing it with the rise of Bernie Sanders and (like him or not) Jeremy Corbyn.