What Happened to the Finnish Left?

The downfall of Sanna Marin and the rise of Alexander Stubb is due to the usual suspects, and a new era of sexism.

Alexander Stubb in an Ironman competition, showing how far he is from traditional Finnish masculinity. Source. Heptagon, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

It has been a big 12 months in Finnish politics. First, primer minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) lost the parliamentary election in April 2023, and she stepped down from her position as party…