"If 2018 looked like an explosion in a banana factory, ..."

[robkelk]

"... 2019 is on course for an equally dreary sequel."

Op-Ed by Michael Enright: Liberals around the world are struggling to define themselves

If you peruse the commentariat looking for enlightenment in all this, you will find that, yes indeedy, traditional liberals and their values are in crisis. Worldwide. Which must elate conservatives, right?

But wait. Dig deeper into current online punditry and you'll come across headlines like this: "Why Conservatives are in crisis."

Apparently there is enough crisis to go around for everybody.

Oh, and photographic evidence that a liberal Canadian Prime Minister and a conservative US President can get along:

(Scott Stewart, Associated Press: Pierre Trudeau and Ronald Reagan in Washington, 1983)