07-23-2019, 10:41 AM
In case you haven't heard, Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-49073992
Now, I knew him primarily as a big Brexiteer and someone that came off as a buffoon. This was enough to mark him as being Trump like in my book. Then yesterday I heard this podcast from The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/podcasts/the-daily/uk-brexit-boris-johnson.html
It talks a lot about who he is and the image he has cultivated. He really is very Trump-esque in that his ideology is pretty malleable and he is reliant on his celebrity. He relies on charm and humor to get by, but he only pretends at being a bumbling idiot. He is well educated and speaks in a very posh accent, which is usually something that turns the middle-class voters in the UK off. But not for him. Perhaps it's because of the image he has cultivated. Sound familiar? I think the biggest difference may be that it's an act for Johnson.
Anyway, this is going to be an interesting new era.
Now, I knew him primarily as a big Brexiteer and someone that came off as a buffoon. This was enough to mark him as being Trump like in my book. Then yesterday I heard this podcast from The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/podcasts/the-daily/uk-brexit-boris-johnson.html
It talks a lot about who he is and the image he has cultivated. He really is very Trump-esque in that his ideology is pretty malleable and he is reliant on his celebrity. He relies on charm and humor to get by, but he only pretends at being a bumbling idiot. He is well educated and speaks in a very posh accent, which is usually something that turns the middle-class voters in the UK off. But not for him. Perhaps it's because of the image he has cultivated. Sound familiar? I think the biggest difference may be that it's an act for Johnson.
Anyway, this is going to be an interesting new era.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
