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Matthew Parris

Can we trust the people? I’m no longer sure

12 November 2016

9:00 AM

12 November 2016

9:00 AM

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States may have signalled the death of the closest thing we have to a religion in politics. On both sides of the Atlantic, democracy risks being knocked from the high altar as an unmitigated and unquestioned good.

The man’s obviously a fool and a nasty fool too.

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