Posted on 05/23/2019 8:02:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The former London mayor has more in common with our 45th president than you might think. When members of your own political party invent a slogan to block your rise to power, it’s likely that you pose a threat to the status quo.
In America three years ago, that slogan was #NeverTrump — establishment conservatives’ call to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican presidential nomination. In Britain now, it’s “Anyone but Boris,” establishment Tories’ rallying cry as they try to stop Boris Johnson from becoming the next prime minister. And like the #NeverTrump movement, their efforts look destined to fail.
The two men share several obvious qualities. Both make an art out of chaos, packaging dishevelment and disarray into box-office entertainment. Both hold a strange outsider status, as men born to wealth railing against the very establishments in which they’ve spent their lives. And both have remarkable heads of hair. (The most frequently seen comment on Johnson’s YouTube appearances is that he looks like Trump’s English cousin.)
Trump and Johnson are proof that voters warm to a politician who speaks his mind — even if he does not always understand what he is saying. The former’s well-documented Twitter account is a mixture of hilarious outbursts and incoherent ramblings.
Politicalspeak is replaced by spontaneous thought, leaving critics and followers enraged and enthralled. Johnson’s eloquence is a match for any British swot, but he too can be made to look remarkably inept. A 2017 policy interview with the BBC saw the charming campaigner reduced to a bumbling mess. Though Boris is not yet active on Twitter, his penchant for politically incorrect blunders suggests the platform would suit him well.
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Unbiased article :)
Boris Johnson has always appeared to be more a conservative than May or Cameron, but he’s also appeared (to me) to also be a politician trying to climb the greasy pole like everyone else.
Will he really give a true Brexit?
He’s also a Trump hater.
Get lost, Boris!
He needs to intern at Huffington Post or perhaps Buzzfeed, unless you want to start losing customers again National Review.
Is he really, I thought he had been supporting Trump lately
Is he? I thought I’d heard differently, but could be mistaken. I do know that Jo Johnson, Boris’ younger brother is very Liberal. Jo voted as a Remainer in 2016.
Boris? Sounds Russian. And what about his honeypot, Natasha?
#covfefe
Maybe he’s changed knowing that Trump will probably win reelection. Typical careerist move.
The same way Lindsey Graham changed ‘overnight’, as soon as his pal John McCain passed on.
If the PM ends up NOT being Nigel Farage, England can go f-— itself, for all I care.
“Boris? Sounds Russian. And what about his honeypot, Natasha?”
He was actually born in the US....New York I think of wealthy British parents.
I like his books, especially his Churchill biography
This article starts off with a false premise — Trump is nothing like BoJo.
Trump did exactly what he promised. In addition he was a successful businessman and celebrity before the Presidency.
BoJo has flumpfed everything he’s done.
I don’t appreciate trying to compare the two
a question - how do you define a “true Brexit”? Is it out of the EU and the customs union? So the UK becoming something like Thailand vis-a-vis the EU?
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