Lies, fantasies and extremism: the rising risks to the world’s democracies

Canada has not been fertile ground for this approach, but heavy-handed, illiberal populism gains ground with the normalization of extremism and the politics of fear, hate, and resentment.

U.S. President Donald Trump is promoting the idea that the way to deal with the country's reckoning over its failure to address racial inequality over the last 150 years is for white people to use whatever means they want, including violence, to suppress Black people or others protesting on their behalf, writes Les Whittington. Unsplash photograph by Sean Lee

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 9, 2020

OTTAWA—The final, horrible truth is that it really doesn't matter what Donald Trump does or says. Over the summer, the U.S. president and his captive Republican party have shed any pretence of governing in the best interests of Americans or protecting norms of democracy and civilized behaviour. R...

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