“Focusing on economic issues and not taking the bait of the culture war”. That is the recipe that the Democrat Gina Hinojosa, the first woman of Latin origin who will be governor of Texas, has prescribed to the left to defeat the right and the far right at the polls. Betting on discourses focused on making life “affordable” –and even on social class– is the formula that the Democrats have followed in the US midterm elections, Lula in Brazil and Die Linke in Berlin. All of them have won the elections in which they were running. But this does not mean that they have renounced defending socially marginalized groups and the causes that the right encompasses under the label of woke.

The triumph, for the first time, of the post-communists on this Sunday's election night in the city-state of Berlin, has a name: Elif Eralp, the candidate for Die Linke, who has come to lead the institutional progressive political space in the German capital. For the first time since reunification, this party has obtained more support than the Social Democrats, who remain last in the distribution of seats. Die Linke has also surpassed the Greens. This triumph contrasts with the global rise of the far right.