American conservatives feel rightly inspired by the recent success of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his triumphant, freshly dominant Conservative Party – the Tories. But a brief look at election figures from British balloting in December shows only modest Tory gains in percentage of the national vote—barely 1% over their lackluster performance in 2017 when the Conservatives failed to win a Parliamentary majority.

What sealed their victory this time wasn’t Conservative gains, but Labour losses: the left leaning party collapsed from 40% of the vote in 2017, to 32% in 2019 – their worst showing in 84 years.

In America, even if Republicans fail to make the dramatic gains they are working hard to secure, they could still win if voters in Midwestern swing states shun the increasingly strident leftism of the Democrats, just as millions of Brits abandoned the uncompromising socialism of the Labour hard-liners.