Justin Trudeau’s profession is the stuff of Twenty first-century political drama, with an arc that has taken him from glamorous liberal standard-bearer to the butt of jokes by President-elect Donald J. Trump and his acolytes.
He burst onto the worldwide scene in 2015, a newly elected younger chief of Canada whose father had additionally as soon as been a well-liked prime minister.
And he spent the following decade constructing a model round being a feminist, an environmentalist, a refugee and Indigenous rights advocate, pursuing the identical message of change and hope as Barack Obama.
While he drew fawning critiques within the information media — together with over his poster boy seems to be — his honeymoon with Canadians actually lasted solely about two years; by 2017, a sequence of controversies had already tarnished his picture-perfect picture.
His get together went on to lose the favored vote in two elections, in 2019 and 2021, requiring him to type minority governments propped up by a left-wing opposition get together. That help, too, has now evaporated.
Today, Mr. Trudeau finds himself — like different Western leaders — dealing with an offended constituency and shedding management.
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