Divorced from reality

Three weeks have passed since the election on May 21, in which the SYRIZA leftists suffered a crushing defeat. They believed they would emerge victorious but ended up with only half the share that New Democracy got. However, even to this day, it appears that they still haven't grasped why 600,000 citizens who had voted for them in 2019 turned their backs on them.

The voters criticized SYRIZA primarily for its blanket rejectionism and its refusal to acknowledge anything positive that the New Democracy government had accomplished over the past four years. Despite the government signing a defense agreement with the French and the US, SYRIZA claimed that they were compromising national rights. Even though the conservative administration unrolled the most successful vaccination campaign in Europe, SYRIZA accused them of causing deaths in ICUs. And when the government provided...