In these nations, people you wouldn’t trust to post a letter for you have been elected to the highest office. They use impunity as a political weapon, revelling in their ability to survive daily scandals, any one of which would destroy a normal politician. If there is a formula for the new demagoguery, there must also be a formula for confronting and overturning it. At the moment, the political model for almost all parties is to drive change from the top down. When you try to control nature from the top down, you find yourself in a constant battle with it.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2019 06:00 UTC