Analysis: The free world is leaderless
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the latest to take a hit. Young, handsome and eloquent, Trudeau was once the international community’s golden boy, and a welcome contrast to his brash American counterpart south of the border. “Canada may be one of the world’s more boring countries, as yawn-inspiring as sensible shoes — wake up, reader, I know you’re snoozing! — but it’s also emerging as a moral leader of the free world,” Nicholas Kristof wrote last month in the New York Times.
— Hayes Brown March 5, 2019 “The problem is that this particular scandal goes to his carefully crafted image,” Christopher Sands, director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, told The Washington Post. And it may be a scandal too far for Trudeau, whose slick public persona has been worn thin following a number of controversies, including one over allegations of groping.
Merkel has presided over a fraught era of European economics and immigration. Her announcement last year reflected broader fatigue with her consensus-driven, centrist politics. “Theresa May’s rhetoric can be as populist as Trump’s - Brexit interventions have made British PM one of western Europe’s most populist orators” https://t.co/S8bYrMMTjA pic.twitter.com/UFPxHRQRsQ
There does seem to be a looming global crisis in democracy. In recent years, groups such as the watchdog organization Freedom House have consistently logged a decline in political rights and civil liberties worldwide. Autocratic countries such as Russia and China have continuously cracked down on freedoms and worked to expand their influence beyond their borders. Democratic norms in other countries appear to be eroding as well.
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