Hillary Clinton is correct: the showman leader era has harmed politics

Performative politics is being put to the test, and despite its accomplishments, it is beginning to be found wanting. Boris Johnson's political victories, which resulted in the Brexit disaster and what appears to be a zombie government, have demonstrated the limits of theatre and theatrics over substance, reason, and morality.

However, mastery of "performative politics," as Hillary Clinton put it in an interview with me....