Trump-era elections in the Anglosphere

A measure of how Trumpism does in the export market will be found in the other parts of the ‘Anglosphere,' and happily there are two elections in that zone in the next two weeks, in Canada and Australia. They couldn’t be farther apart geographically, but with the great exception of the ‘French fact’ in Quebec they couldn’t be closer in their history and politics.
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There has certainly been outrage at U.S. Donald Trump’s threats to crush the Canadian economy and take over the country, which doubtless moved more votes to Liberal Leader Mark Carney, writes Gwynne Dyer.

LONDON, U.K.—The dictionary defines a ‘horse whisperer’ as “someone who is skilled at training horses using gentle, non-violent methods based on understanding horse behaviour and psychology.” By that standard, the only ‘Trump-whisperer’ in Europe is Russian Pre...

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