What have we learned from Trump?

Anti-elitist politics, based on resentment, misinformation, and demagogic messaging, have consequences.

U.S. President Donald Trump used the internet to fuel his political ascendancy, in turn greatly accelerating the erosion of what passed for political discourse, writes Les Whittington.White House photograph by Tia Dufour

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 4, 2020

OTTAWA—It took decades for Americans’ overarching postwar notion of their country as a force for progress in the world, however flawed, to deteriorate into the current dystopian nightmare of destructive, extremist-fed mass irrationality. No one would have guessed back in those long ago hopeful ...

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