In 1983 the LCC organised a major conference «After the landslide» to examine the lessons from the party's catastrophic defeat of that year: the tone the conference set - that organisational and political modernisation and change were essential was to become the dominant theme in the party's internal life in the following decade. (en.wikipedia.org)
Nonetheless, there has emerged a cohort of Democratic commentators comparing Trump to another Republican presidential nominee: Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, the anti-establishment conservative firebrand who led the GOP to catastrophic defeat in 1964. (firstthings.com)
«Brand Miliband» has had a rough few weeks and is looking pretty sad, at a time when the opposition leader should be riding high in the polls against a relatively unpopular prime minister who has just suffered a string of ordinarily catastrophic defeats over Europe and is reeling (well, he certainly ought to be) over his formerly close association with a convicted criminal. (theconversation.com)