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Sweden’s Election Has a Harsh Lesson for America First Conservatives

Sweden’s conservatives may have discovered a painful electoral paradox: Winning the immigration argument does not guarantee winning the election.

Mass migration has transformed Sweden’s social fabric, strained public order, and helped create an electorate very different from the one that built the country’s postwar consensus. Policies once dismissed as unacceptable have become governing orthodoxy. Yet the party that forced that transformation is losing ground, while voters shaped by Sweden’s migration era may now deliver the political Left a razor-thin advantage.

After weeks of opposition leads, the Right closed the gap dramatically in the final days of the campaign. Election-night projections initially suggested a one-seat left-wing majority, 175 seats to 174. By Thursday, however, the Swedish Electoral Authority reported the final count at 176-173, giving the Left a slightly wider but still narrow majority.

That result reveals a larger story: Uncontrolled immigration does not merely change policy debates; over time, it changes the people and places that decide elections. 

This election also raises two important questions: How deeply has mass migration altered Sweden’s electorate? And can the national conservative Sweden Democrats avoid losing ownership of the immigration issue they forced into the mainstream?

First, immigration has changed Sweden’s electorate on a historic scale. Official population statistics show that about 28% of residents have a foreign background, including........

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