#120 - Because It's 2019 (Patreon)
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As a blackface scandal threatens to derail his re-election campaign, we look back at Canadian Prime Minister and international media brand Justin Trudeau - the "progressive" leader who wasn't. We watched GOD SAVE JUSTIN TRUDEAU (2014), a documentary about Trudeau's 2014 boxing match with Conservative senator Patrick Brazeau, which struggles to depict Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son as a political outsider.
Catch up with Luke's articles about the Trudeau Phenomenon:
Liberalism and the Politics of Equality - https://lukesavage.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/liberalism-and-the-politics-of-equality-part-i
Justin Trudeau and the Politics of Spectacle - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/justin-trudeau-and-the-politics-of-spectacle
Justin Trudeau's is waging a phony war against inequality - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/03/justin-trudeau-phony-war-against-inequality