Tip for politicians looking for love and respect: leave politics
History has a way of turning on former leaders, often long after the fact. They might want to consider what is happening to Sir John A. Macdonald.
CHELSEA, QUE.—It is striking how many former political villains have recently been recast as wise, likeable, senior statesmen. (They all tend to be men.) Have they mellowed with age, have the political goalposts moved radically in the last couple of decades, or are we just more forgi...
