It's even true to some extent in France, though to some extent stomped out somewhat effectively in the post-war period unlike in the other Latin countries.
Overton window discussions aside, Merkel is also pretty clearly to the left of Obama, Merkel is too, arguably the Tories in England are as well. Clearly Chirac was as well. Even Sarkozy the opportunist is not going to leave France in some crazed neo-liberal paradise the 30-year developed apparatus of which, in the US, Obama will likely not even make a dent... Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
Whom did you mean at the second instance?
Even Sarkozy the opportunist is not going to leave France in some crazed neo-liberal paradise
I wonder though what would have happened had the financial crisis arrrived a few years later. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.