These policies have led to Denmark being subject to light corn among many other progressives. Critics described the Social Democrats as monsters, racist and reactionary, claiming that they have effectively become right-wing parties on the issue. But for Fredericksen and her aides, strict immigration policies are not a violation of progressivism. On the contrary, they think the two are intertwined. When I sat in her bright modern office looking at the buildings in Copenhagen centuries ago, she explained this issue as the main reason her party has returned to power, with the left being the other Even if they are shaking in the place, they stay at work.
Left politics relies on collective solutions where voters feel part of a shared community or nation, she explained. Otherwise, they will not accept the high taxes they pay to a strong welfare state. “Being a traditional social democratic thinker means you can't allow everyone who wants to participate in your society to come,” says Fredericksen. Otherwise, “It's impossible to have a sustainable society, especially if you're a welfare society like us.” High levels of immigration could undermine this unity, she said. That said, most of the wealthier voters are in the process of burdening the working class and tense benefits programs for wealthier voters, busy schools, and increasing competition for housing and blue-collar jobs. I will impose escape. Working class families know this from experience. The wealthy leftists pretend otherwise, then lecture less privileged voters on their supposed intolerance.
“There's a price to pay when too many people enter your society,” Fredericksen told me. “The person who pays the best price of this, it's the working class or the lower class of society. It's not – let me be completely directly – it's not rich. It's a good salary, good work We are not us.'' She has returned to the idea that the Social Democrats did not change their position for tactical reasons. They did as a rule. They believe that high immigration helps to cause economic inequality, and that progressives are more interested in improving the lives of the most vulnerable members of their society than anything else. The party's position on migration was “not an outlier,” she told me. “That's what we do because we actually believe it.”
They must consider this dilemma, as the party on the centre left elsewhere, including the US, tries to find a way to return to power. Immigration could continue to be a critical political issue in the coming years as poverty, political instability, climate change, human trafficking networks and social media continue to push residents of poor countries into richer countries. there is. Yes, rich countries with fertility rates need to allow immigration to make their economy function smoothly. However, the approaches taken by the US and Western Europe in recent decades have failed.
Immigration is often chaotic, localized and faster than voters want. Citizens of Europe, the US and other countries were never directly asked whether they wanted to acknowledge millions of people. Instead, they rebelled after the fact. Trump won in 2016 and 2024 by running on a massive deportation platform. In Europe, the far right parties have long been the sole opponents of immigrants, and they are rewarded with great profits.
