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@losttourist specifically on this point I'd say a lot of it comes down to hysteresis, as an engineer would say.
I assume the UK right-wing government has backed away from some workers' rights policies? Well they started from a place that means even with the walking away they couldn't politically make it back to the US policies even if they wanted to.
More broadly, everything from the design of US governments through political perspectives in the population prevented US policies from going out that far in the first place.
By design there's a good bit of dampening in the US system, so it tends to approach new equilibrium slowly when at all.
