A new slate of progressives is rising up to challenge the status quo in Massachusetts, but the battle they will fight is uphill and marred with obstacles. If they are to win, progressives will need to put politics second and community first.
As tempting as it may be to attribute the party’s success to the rise in populism that has dominated Europe in recent years, Sinn Féin is more than an anti-establishment populist front. Instead, the party has reimagined itself into the first alternative vision for an Irish future that the country has seen since the War of Independence. Sinn Féin has broken Irish politics, radically and permanently, and there’s no going back for the Emerald Isle.
