So you're a movement chauvinist.

So I am a movement chauvinist.

Congress remains a big tent party, committed to preserving India s pluralism and conscious of the multiple identities and interests of India s many peoples. The BJP, which accuses Congress of appeasing India s minorities, hews to a staunchly Hindu chauvinist line, and has received support from some of the most bigoted and intolerant sections of Indian society.

Center left parties face a particularly difficult challenge, as their lower income electoral base is lured away by anti immigration, chauvinist competitors. Making matters worse, the fragmentation of production (whether in goods or services), together with intensifying fiscal pressures, militates against these parties traditional reliance on collective bargaining to create systems and policies that insure citizens against shocks and misfortune.

Tung turned out to be shallow, radical in his views, more chauvinist than China s top leaders, and prone to rash decision making on important policies with wide ranging social and economic consequences. He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.

They must offer voters a realistic economic program that is market friendly and open to international trade, while promising tangible benefits to the poorer 60 70 of the population who are understandably frustrated with their lack of economic progress. If a left party s economic policy is perceived as a weak copy of the right s agenda, the poorest segments of the population will gravitate to chauvinist forces and their false promises of protection from the consequences of globalization.