‘Just how cynical do you have to be to exploit our anxious desire for objective truth?’

12 Dec 2019 | by Jessica Metheringham

This election is full of tricks from the Donald Trump playbook, says Jessica Metheringham. So how to vote?

‘My conclusion from this is that the single most important thing in this month’s UK election is to stop this Trump-like popularism gaining an overall majority.’ | Photo: Steve Houghton-Burnett / Unsplash.

Three years ago, British people were stupefied to see Donald Trump come from the political outskirts to win the US presidential election. Up and down the country, and across the political spectrum, I heard people asking how could it possibly have happened. How had people across the Atlantic collectively made this choice?

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