Trump told 30,573 lies during his four years in office, but it just doesn’t matter in today’s low-road politics

When did the low road become the busiest thoroughfare in politics? When did notoriety eclipse character in public life? And how did psychopathic lying so easily relegate facts to the outer limits of irrelevance?

If the polls have it right, former Republic president Donald Trump, left, and U.S. Democratic Vice-President Harris are in a dead heat. If true, that is astonishing, writes Michale Harris. Photographs courtesy of Wikipedia/Flickr

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

October 21, 2024

HALIFAX—As the moment of truth in what is arguably the most consequential American presidential election in history, daunting questions loom.

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