My own sense is that he'll make a seriously bad candidate, due to what I'd call his narcissism. This isn't so much about adoring yourself, as being so self-absorbed that your sense of how others react to you goes missing.I dunno... he still seems pretty tone-deaf to me.
He told CBC Radio's Eleanor Wachtel that politics is “the most incredible adventure of all the adventures I've had in my life. … It's been unforgettable no matter how it turns out.”
But for people in the country, how it turns out is what counts; he can save all the savouring for his next memoir.
“What is it that a great politician knows?” he asked Adam Gopnik. “I'm trying to learn that.”
You might expect him to have had a clue before running to be PM, but at least he's asking.
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