Article 1K5KE Trump and Brexit are like lotto tickets: the more unrealistic, the better

Trump and Brexit are like lotto tickets: the more unrealistic, the better

by
Cory Doctorow
from on (#1K5KE)

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Fintan O'Toole is on fire in analysing the nature of Boris and Trump's pitches for (respectively) Brexit and a ban on Muslim migration to the USA: they're meant as fantasies, deliberately unrealistic, to be voted for as an act of political daydreaming in a truthy age where no one holds politicians accountable for bald-faced lies. (more")

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