Peter Blaikie

Weakening Democracy in the full light of day

Peter Blaikie
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The Washington Post uses the slogan Democracy Dies in Darkness. Given the fact that, in many of the world’s most democratic countries, and to varying degrees, democracy is in retreat, a more appropriate slogan ...
Peter Blaikie

Are the Democrats ready to win in 2020?

Peter Blaikie
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That’s My View Karl Rove, the Republican strategist and Svengali, who master-minded the two presidential victories of George W. Bush, once stated, “To win in politics, you must successfully attack your oppon...
President Trump

The Disrupter as President

Peter Blaikie
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That's My View Peter Blaikie Napoleon is said to have remarked, “In politics, absurdity is not a handicap”. So it seems with Donald Trump. In Hamlet, Polonius, the chief counselor (and sycophant) to t...
Government - Mark Norman

The Government tries to destroy a good man

Peter Blaikie
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Peter Blaikie As a general rule, I don’t comment on political affairs in Canada. However, as we are only a few months away from a federal election, and as the Liberal government’s treatment of Vice-Admiral ...
Trump 2020

Donald Trump in 2020 – Are you crazy?

Peter Blaikie
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Most rational observers of the political scene in the United States could be forgiven for suggesting there is no chance of Donald Trump being re-elected President in 2020. After all, and to use some of the word...