When you’re staying with American friends and comparing notes with Washington journalists, it hits home. A chill wind is blowing from the country of cool as Toronto’s old Ford Nation juggernaut hits the comeback (and campaign) trail across the province. His mayoral notoriety went global — a reminder that his populist appeal took root in Toronto long before America fell under Trump’s spell. I asked an old friend, New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler, what lessons he has learned from reporting on Trump’s ascendancy. And the media remade the Ford brothers into mythical figures fighting the “elites” long before Trump appropriated that battle cry.

Source: thestar March 21, 2018 22:30 UTC