Theresa May is very popular, or at least more popular than any Tory leader has any right to be after over a decade of declining living standards and growth rates. After all, food prices are projected to increase and further public spending cuts are on the way.

Obviously it makes no sense to speak in absolutes. May is still supported only by a minority of the public. But she has a plurality, and in our parliamentary system that is turned into an outright majority.

So, what’s going on? Briefly, Theresa May’s right-wing, racist, nationalist form of class politics has significantly more support than Jeremy Corbyn’s left-wing, internationalist, antiracist form of class politics in today’s Britain. Polarization is happening, but unevenly. Generational trends are working themselves out, but in a protracted and irregular fashion.