Jonah Goldberg: Trump’s ‘Day One’ dictator comment is a sad symptom of populist politics
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Dec 12, 2023
3 minutes
Everyone knows that politics involves more truth-stretching than most professions. As the line (often misattributed to Mark Twain) goes, “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
It’s also a - that populist politicians lie even more than conventional politicians. This is in part because populism requires fomenting, exploiting, or maintaining a high level of public anger. If you tell the crowd that an issue is complicated, that solutions come with trade-offs, or
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