April 18, 2025

Europeans often ask and Americans do not often explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency]

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.

The model of a modern Prime Minister would be a kind of grotesque composite freak