Boris Johnson is set to win the leadership election of the Conservative
party and become prime minister of the United Kingdom within weeks. Both
the British and American media abound with comparisons of him to Donald
Trump. And the comparison is apt, as far as it goes.
Both are gangly, large men wearing ill-fitting suits, with tousled fair-haired mops. Both have little more than a passing acquaintance with the truth and are happy to use racist dog-whistles to score cheap points. And both Trump and Johnson owe their entire fame and fortune to the media’s fawning attention over the decades, and now, when it fits their purpose, are treating the media like the enemy. And both men make bombastic promises they have no idea or plan for carrying out.
To get a better idea of how Johnson may act as prime minister, it would be more useful to compare him to another populist politician, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Like Johnson, Netanyahu also has quite a lot in common with Trump. But unlike Trump, and like Johnson, he is also extraordinarily clever and knowledgeable, and a lifetime politician.
Note EU-Digest: Often compared with Donald Trump, but far more dangerous than Trump, being not only a Populist and opportunist, but also a highly educated, life long politician, with a far greater intellectual capability than incoherent Donald Trump..
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Both are gangly, large men wearing ill-fitting suits, with tousled fair-haired mops. Both have little more than a passing acquaintance with the truth and are happy to use racist dog-whistles to score cheap points. And both Trump and Johnson owe their entire fame and fortune to the media’s fawning attention over the decades, and now, when it fits their purpose, are treating the media like the enemy. And both men make bombastic promises they have no idea or plan for carrying out.
To get a better idea of how Johnson may act as prime minister, it would be more useful to compare him to another populist politician, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Like Johnson, Netanyahu also has quite a lot in common with Trump. But unlike Trump, and like Johnson, he is also extraordinarily clever and knowledgeable, and a lifetime politician.
Note EU-Digest: Often compared with Donald Trump, but far more dangerous than Trump, being not only a Populist and opportunist, but also a highly educated, life long politician, with a far greater intellectual capability than incoherent Donald Trump..
Read more at: Boris Johnson is more like Netanyahu than Trump - Europe - Haaretz.com
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