Like Trump, Johnson brilliantly and cynically played to older, white voters and rode a wave of xenophobia, anti-elitist, anti-immigrant, they’re-taking-what’s-ours begrudging. “Fou.”I pondered on the parallels between the world’s two most infamous blonds, Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. So does Trump. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBill’s having a Phoenix airport 30-minute meet-cute with the attorney general in charge of the F.B.I. But, as The Times’s Sarah Lyall wrote, Johnson has a sometimes buffoonish “cocktail of charm, bluster and obfuscation.” And so does Trump.

Source: New York Times July 02, 2016 18:22 UTC