He argued that building walls around his country would make it great again. At first, it worked, at least in a political sense; he won a smashing electoral victory by appealing to a coalition of social conservatives, business interests worried about the hard left opposition, and frustrated blue-collar workers in depressed areas. But his government was corrupt and shambolic, and the promised growth didn’t materialize. In the end, he left office with a very poor approval rating, and the left prevailed in a big way in the subsequent election.
Is it Trump or Boris Johnson? We’re about to find out.