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The mid-term elections returned a bevy of ultraconservative tea partiers, while thinning the ranks of moderate Democrats.
Unless Mr Abe can raise Japan's long-run rate of growth, he will not be able to fulfil his promise to repair public finances.There is a danger that the ultraconservative Mr Abe will be tempted to use his new majority for political, rather than economic, purposes.
"My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative," he said.The interview would have seemed weirdly self-indulgent if it had appeared in a secular publication.
THOUGH it has crushed street protests, jailed dissidents, mounted show trials and hardened censorship, Iran's ultraconservative, military-backed government remains shaky as it faces a string of testing challenges, including a looming diplomatic showdown over its nuclear ambitions.
THE federal-government shutdown that started this morning is the result of a factional fight among Republicans in the House of Representatives, pitting an ultraconservative tea-party minority against a merely very conservative majority.
The trend was repeated in many areas of the ultraconservative south.
Another candidate, Chuck DeVore, an ultraconservative state assemblyman, seemed the obvious choice for the tea-party movement.
He also wants to push the ultraconservative Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world's deepest pot of savings, into taking greater risks to boost returns.
Since he is seen by voters in general as a little square, and by social conservatives as not enough of a social conservative, should he be in the market for a non-square ultraconservative (Mike Huckabee is a mean hand with a guitar)?
Once confined to the loony fringes of, say, Bavaria's CSU, the conservative sister party to Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats, it has leapt beyond the CSU's beer tents to a young ultraconservative party, Alternative for Germany (AfD).
