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‘Trump and [Boris] Johnson’s egos are … self-annihilating — blinding them to the interests of others, denying them any chance of achieving anything substantive … while pushing the political culture of both countries to the edge of polarized collapse… . A mature democracy will throw up these characters every now and again, and use them. But a healthy one will also test them, and cast them out …’

Andrew Sullivan on the Katzenjammer Kids. (No link.)

Margaret Soltan, June 16, 2023 12:52PM
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