‘Don’t overexpose the leader’: Trudeau, Trump poke holes in the old adage

If polls mean anything, no one is yet getting sick of Trudeau, who is the virtual wallpaper of their lives.
There is no camera in this, or any, land Justin Trudeau cowers from, says Tim Powers.
OTTAWA—Don’t overexpose the leader! Forever that has been the golden rule in politics. Political strategists of all stripes believed, and history seemed to validate, that leaders who the public saw and heard from a little too often would become quickly irritating to citizens who didn’t want p...

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