When slogans become policy, everyone suffers

Bumper sticker slogans may be clever, but as the last four years have proven, they are no substitute for genuine policy.

The intensity of the election scrap, between the MAGA cultists and the Biden camp’s ‘Battle for the Soul of the Nation’ does not bode well for the years to come, writes Andrew Caddell. Flickr photograph by Amaury Laporte

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 11, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Like so many Canadians, I was glued to the internet last week watching the American elections. I first wanted to determine if my cousin Jeff Jackson was re-elected to the State Senate in North Carolina (he was, by 16,000 votes) but also to observe the cultural and psychological wa...

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