An army of victims

It's fun to pretend the world is against you.

As I read about Ezra Levant’s extreme-right (and now anti-masker) website Rebel News lying about scoring an “exclusive interview” with Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, I am reminded once again that writing for its now-defunct group blog a few years ago probably wasn’t one of my better life choices.

That said, the stuff I did write for them has held up pretty well, if I say so myself. Especially this piece, which called Donald Trump out on his persecution complex long before he took office:

Even his critics will admit that Trump is exceptionally charismatic and often very funny.  (Occasionally, the laughs are intentional.) And when Trump bragged about the landmark buildings he owns, I found myself legitimately admiring the fact that he makes absolutely no apologies for being fabulously wealthy. Compared to sons of privilege George W. Bush and Al Gore trying desperately to make themselves look like regular country folk (and, more recently, spouse of privilege Hillary Clinton straining …