As the Social Democrats' political communication increasingly revolves around security, values and national cohesion, new tensions arise in the party's organization and ideological direction. When the future is described as a preservation of the present, communication risks becoming both exclusionary and visionless. A simplistic view of security and nationalistic communication shifts social democracy away from equality, global responsibility...
Author: Vladan Lausevic
Vladan Lausevic is a writer and social entrepreneur, based in Stockholm. He writes about both local and global issues in, among others, Global Bar Magazine and Tidningen Syre, with a special interest in democracy, migration and citizenship. He is now also an editor at Red Justice.
Magdalena Andersson and the communication dead end
In recent years, the Social Democrats have communicated more about issues such as migration, values and cohesion. This is no coincidence, given that social policy developments since the late 2010s have been more about topics such as community, crime and security. In a political landscape where the Social Democrats have lost many voters and their previously more obvious position as…