American democracy versus Trump: an election like no other

The contest is already shaping up as the ugliest, most surreal, and out-of-bounds campaign in modern times.

Whether he faces off against Bernie Sanders, left, or Joe Biden, right, U.S. President Donald Trump will unleash plenty of ugliness against his Democratic rival, writes Les Whittington. Flickr photographs by Gage Skidmore and White House photograph courtesy of Joyce N. Boghosian

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 11, 2020

OTTAWA—You can hear the chants of “Lock him up” already. If Joe Biden emerges as the Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republicans are certain to translate their investigation of Biden’s links to Ukraine into the kind of allegations, proven or not, levelle...

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