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Harper stubbornly insists populism can be managed

Stephen Harper is a traditional conservative, standing on a shrinking patch of political real estate, and he’s responding to the crisis like traditional conservatives too often do: by suggesting that the likes of Trump can somehow be accommodated.

In his new book, Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption, Stephen Harper acknowledges that Trump’s rise has been both 'disruptive' and 'dysfunctional.' But, bizarrely, he then goes on to call Trump’s dysfunctionality 'benign and constructive.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

October 15, 2018

TORONTO—Can Donald Trump be managed? Can so-called “populists” be persuaded to moderate their so-called populism? Anyone who has paid the slightest attention to politics, in the past two years, knows the answer. The answer is no. But the optimists—mainly traditional conservatives, like for...

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