Hewson's View: 'Strongman' leadership

By John Hewson
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:29am, first published August 15 2019 - 7:00pm
Disruptor: President Donald Trump's defining slogan has been 'Make America Great Again', but it's difficult to see what he's done to achieve this, argues John Hewson. Photo: AP
Disruptor: President Donald Trump's defining slogan has been 'Make America Great Again', but it's difficult to see what he's done to achieve this, argues John Hewson. Photo: AP

A most worrying feature of the significant, almost global, movement away from traditional centrist political parties/governments over the last several years, often to the extremes (Right or Left), has been the emergence of the so-called "strongmen" as leaders.

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