How to deal, psychologically speaking, with Boris Johnson and Donald Trump? For obvious reasons, many of us have spent years telling ourselves that these men are outrageous anomalies, mere boils on the face of the body politic. Of course boils are nasty, but we take comfort in the fact that they may also be treated. The state – I won’t say deep state – will carefully apply its very own brand of topical antibiotics, and the inflammation will eventually disappear, smoothness restored at last.
But is this really true? The