Almost everyone wants to dial down the political rhetoric, here’s why no one knows how to

There are so many worked-up people on social media who have no interest in being less angry. Quite the pickle we’ve gotten ourselves into, eh?

Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, and Pierre Poilievre. We all know that the engine of democratic politics is overheating, but we don’t know how to cool it down. We can’t legislate our way out of this. You can’t order people to relax. And we can’t talk ourselves into it, writes Chris Dornan. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, and courtesy of Flickr/Gage Skidmore, and illustration by Neena Singhal

Opinion

BY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

July 25, 2024

The day after the attempt on Donald Trump’s life, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called and spoke with the former president to offer every sympathy, and to condemn this appalling act of political violence.

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