The interplay between Left and Right and common economic trends tend to generate similar, recurrent patterns in US and British politics — with variations, of course. Most notably, Trump’s and Boris Johnson’s blunt, flamboyant, in your face style today contrasts with the genial, conventional style of Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s. I attribute this to the Left’s more entrenched opposition today and the more idological, partisan nature of the news media. As the improbable success of Trump and Johnson demonstrate, genial and conventional just doesn’t cut it for insurgent conservative leaders these days.
How anyone who watched, or heard Thatcher while she was alive could say she was genial or conventional is beyond me.
She was Sarah Palin on steroids with a voice that never sounded screechy. A full bore Trump in a China shop. She destroyed people who debated her, simply eviscerated them. She was awesome.