Boris Johnson: Trump Is “Just What The World Needs”

Boris Johnson writes for the Daily Mail:

The biggest threat to the world? Trump? If you look at the facts, you can actually make a case — and I may as well make it now — that a Trump presidency could be just what the world needs. In the cocktail parties of Davos, I am told, the global wokerati have been trembling so violently that you could hear the ice tinkling in their negronis.

Reasonable people can see that Trump is not, actually, a would-be dictator, and they have come to resent what look like legalistic ruses to axe him as a candidate. The more ­frenzied the effort to cancel him, the stronger he becomes. The more bitterly his enemies wage lawfare against him, the more unstoppable he seems to be.

So to all my high-minded anti-Trump friends I say, calm down, folks. The more you froth and fret, the more determined his ­supporters will be — and a Trump victory will continue to migrate from possibility to likelihood to nailed-on certainty.

Read the full article. The piece goes on at great length to attack Obama and hail Trump for actions regarding Russia, Ukraine, and Syria.