Is the fall of Starmer a warning for the Democratic Party?

The political situation of the US and UK in 2026 is very different. In the UK Labour is in power and will stay there for at least another two or three years, but they are threatened by a right wing populist hydra in the form of the Conservatives under its current leader, Reform lead by Farage, the right wing press, Musk via X and hostility from the US government. In the US we have an unpopular fascist administration which is doing all the gerrymandering it can to stop the Democrats winning back the House and possibly the Senate and thereby getting a foothold of resistance to Trump. Yet in the last few months in the UK we have seen a remarkable internal coup, where the Prime Minister has resigned and been replaced not by another senior minister but by a city mayor who had to win a by-election before he could stage a bloodless [1] takeover. Not only did the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer lose his job, but also the Chancellor Rachel Reeves. It was both a rather unusual and also very…