Comments on: Looking Ahead https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/10/18/looking-ahead/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: I Hear America Singing | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/10/18/looking-ahead/#comment-3346 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:22:06 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28728#comment-3346 […] know that I thought the election of Donald Trump in 2016 was a moral and political catastrophe. I have the receipts to prove it. Trump was Plato’s tyrannical man, the Founding Fathers’ demagogue, brought to life. […]

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/10/18/looking-ahead/#comment-3345 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:09:53 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28728#comment-3345 In reply to Peter Lynn.

Thanks Peter. I suppose we could distinguish Trump and Johnson in two ways. First, Johnson may be leading the country in a bad way, but he is no fool. Second, the alternative to Johnson, Jeremy Corbin, is in some ways (maybe not all ways) worse than Johnson himself! But I agree with you that there is a lot of similarity.

]]> By: Peter Lynn https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/10/18/looking-ahead/#comment-3344 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:56:59 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28728#comment-3344 Here in the UK we have a similar polarising character in the form of Boris Johnson. He gives not a jot to law or protocol and will bend any rules if he thinks it will get him what he wants. As a result, as I’m sure you’re aware, he has already been found guilty of illegally proroguing parliament by the Supreme Court. Not that he cares—he is our Trump. An election looks inevitable, and I hope to God he doesn’t get a majority. But a lot of people seem to like him, and I’m fearing the worst.

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