When I posted this essay last week it looked like Jeremy Corbyn and Labour were headed to a pretty bad beating.
Since then, the polls have begun turning up for Labour.

Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives' lead over the opposition Labour Party halved to 9 percent in a Survation telephone poll published on Monday, adding to signs that the election race is tightening ahead of the June 8 vote.

What changed? The Tories announced what they actually stood for, and it was awful.

Theresa May is under ­growing pressure as Tory policies that attack the elderly started to unravel.
Critics believe social care reforms, dubbed the “dementia tax”, and the axing of winter fuel payments will cost the PM dearly on June 8.
Minister Damian Green struggled to justify why anyone needing long-term home care should pay for it if they have assets worth £100,000 or more.
The Work and Pensions Secretary also refused to say how many pensioners would lose help with their heating bills – worth up to £300 a year – under means-testing outlined in the Tory manifesto .

And if that wasn't symbolically cruel enough, the Tories decided to lift the ban on the ivory trade.
In contrast, a majority of UK voters support Labour's manifesto.
Needless to say, when the news media started covering actual issues instead of personalities, Labour surged.

A separate Survation survey, conducted entirely after Thursday’s Tory manifesto launch, found 28 per cent of voters said they were less likely to vote Conservative because of the social care package, branded a “dementia tax” by opponents.
Mary Creagh, who is defending Wakefield for Labour, said on Twitter: “Lots of Tory voters switching to Labour in Wakefield today because of arrogant, complacent Tory attack on pensioners.”

The neoliberal Blairites have worked tirelessly to undermine Jeremy Corbyn since he unexpectedly won Labour's leadership role. Tony Blair led the charge himself.

Labour is in "mortal danger" and faces "annihilation" if Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader, Tony Blair has said as candidates warned that the contest is now "invalid" and could be challenged in court.
The battle to succeed Ed Miliband was mired in chaos amid claims that the contest will be decided by so-called 'infiltrators' who will decide the contest in Mr Corbyn's favour.

In defiance of the Blairites, Labour membership surged after Corbyn took over.

More than 500,000 people are now members of the Labour Party, according to latest figures confirmed today.
This is the highest membership has been at in decades, and includes an astonishing rise of around 128,000 in the fortnight since the EU referendum, bring the total number of members to 515,000 as of today. That’s more than double the 200,000 members the party had on general election day last year, and dwarfs the 20,000 membership boost it had in the days following the election defeat.

The primary enemy of Corbyn has been the openly biased news media, a bias so blatant that many British voters have noticed.

As for Blair's prediction of absolute disaster for Labour, several polls show Corbyn doing better than Ed Miliband did in 2015. Which still isn't nearly good enough, but is a far cry better than what the neoliberals predicted.
Let's hope the trend continues to favor Labour. There is still time.