Era-defining political leaders are no more. We’ve ended up with a pernicious paradox: populism is killing off the popular politician.
Welcome to the new reality format, presently streaming in most advanced democracies: the political honeymoon from hell. Usually, it follows the same narrative arc. After the electoral nuptials, things quickly go south. You don’t see us or hear us, complain the voters. Come to think of it, you never really got us in the first place. AndInfidelity rarely enters into it, for it is not as if the aggrieved electorate has fallen in love with another party.
Era-defining politicians such as Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Bob Hawke, John Howard and Angela Merkel look like museum pieces. Trump, who won the Electoral College in 2016 but not the nationwide vote, never even got to enjoy a political honeymoon. Since Gallup started measuring presidential popularity, he is the only incumbent never to register a 50 per cent job approval rating at any point during his tenure. Biden’s grace period was short-lived. Not since July 2021 – before the botched withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan – has he broken the 50 per cent approval threshold.
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