The three countries that have made the greatest historical contributions to the concepts of democracy and human rights are all in an election year, and two of them, the United Kingdom and France, recently produced unusual results. In the British election, the public did what was necessary in severely punishing the Conservative party (which is not in the slightest conservative), for its unprecedented accomplishment of producing five consecutive thoroughly failed prime ministers in eight years. David Cameron completely bungled Britain’s relations with the European Union; Theresa May interpreted the Brexit vote to leave Europe as an authorization to remain while calling it a departure. Boris Johnson got Brexit done but engaged in such hypocrisy during the COVID shutdown and strained the parliamentary requirement for truthful answers so severely that his own MPs, who largely owed their election to him, deserted him. His initial replacement, Liz Truss, produced an admirable budget but failed to support it with adequately persuasive funding projections and was dispatched as if in an ejector seat after a record-breaking 45 days. Rishi Sunak followed and raised taxes, which British Conservatives don’t do if they have any wish to be re-elected. Naturally, the electorate had to punish such a horrifyingly, if at times comically, inept performance.