Trump’s vulgarity fast becoming signature across so much of our politics

Donald Trump has set the stage for a radical change in U.S. democracy by making abusive language and hateful speech acceptable at the highest levels of American politics. Sadly, he has several imitators.
Donald Trump’s greatest contribution to the toxic, partisan mud bath that politics has become, is the ex-president’s industrial scale lying, writes Michael Harris.

HALIFAX—How did gross incivility take over so much of the public square in both Canada and the United States?

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