The tribalization of politics

Labour sought to redistribute the wealth, the Conservatives tried to defend the existing order, and most people made their choices according to their position in the economic pyramid.

Under British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the Conservatives have become the pro-Brexit party, but 42 per cent of their traditional voters supported 'Remain' in the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union. Flickr photographs by Gage Skidmore and Annie Mole

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 13, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—“Homo economicus” is dead. Long live “homo tribuarius”! That’s not really something to celebrate, but it’s certainly true that in most democratic countries economic self-interest is no longer the most ...

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