The Trump-Brexit axis of idiocy: a status report

The most serious deviation on both sides of the pond has been the devaluation of the currency of truth in politics.

U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May are governing countries that in the past year have seen the perpetuation of political confusion in a way that makes both seem ridiculous, incompetent, and ungovernable, argues Lisa Van Dusen. Photographs courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense/Jette Carr, Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

July 19, 2017

A year on from the cataclysmic Brexit vote and six months into the cataclysmic presidency of Donald Trump, what can be observed about the state of both? When Bank of England governor Mark Carney predicted ahead of the Brexit referendum that a vote to leave the European Union would be the biggest do...

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