Personality VS Policy

Destruction. Oil on canvas. Thomas Cole

The age of policy is dead. Long live the age of personality. Thus, comes the curtain call for modern politics, as the populist strongmen of the modern age tear down all that our predecessors have based their lives upon, the liberal values -democracy, rule of law and open markets. Is this necessarily true, however? People in their present often think that their “now” is the point where personality has taken over, that their “now” is the point where…