Saturday subscribers-only post: Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, and the future of the global "Brahmin left"

An election in France shows how American political conflict is part of a broader realignment of the global political system

A long time ago, workers voted for left parties, and capital — business owners and well-paid, educated citizens — voted right. This is how, eg, you got a southern American political system in the 1960s which was dominated by conservative Democrats but had pockets of wealthy liberal Republicans, mostly in cities. And it is how you got socialist and commu…