The only Canadian to make my authoritative list of the 100 most influential living people EVER is David Frum. His intellectual impact on the Bush administration, including coining the term “axis of evil”, landed him the 71st spot on the Living 100.
While I’m thrilled that a Canadian made the list, I would have much preferred it be the great Jean Chrétien or Celine Dion than the neocon Frum. Frum’s politics are especially heartbreaking because we Canadians so worship his late mother, liberal icon Barabra Frum.
The great Barbara Frum: 1937 -1992
I remember in the early 2000s seeing David spouting his neocon views on TV, as my grandparents would moan “poor Barabara must be turning in her grave.”
Yet as much as I disagree with David’s politics, the neocons are brilliant and exude a level of sophistication that other conservatives can’t match, and it’s because outside foreign policy, they’re basically liberal intellectuals, and Frum’s Canadian roots give him an added layer of polish.
He’s especially critical of Trump for the damage he feels he’s doing to democratic institutions:
Pumpkin Person 
the world’s most clever living canadian OF ALL TIME on racism…
why is AIDS the biggest news story since 1980?
1. 35 m dead.
2. the meaning/significance of it. another proof of Cynicism.
3. it has been close to cured due to enormous POLITICAL pressure. it hasn’t been cured. the anti-retroviral drugs stop working for some.
cancer is many diseases, but if lung cancer were contracted by young people via butt sex it would be cured by now. the anti-retrovirals are a triumph of medicinal chemistry akin to the discovery of penicillin. science doesn’t just happen. it requires enormous resources.
tonight tucker gave the secret hand shake.
it’s interesting that his mother has an italian surname but in fact is descended from a swiss who immigrated before the civil war.
can you guess what it was?
what was the un-mistake-able shibboleth?
that tucker spoke?
it’s funny because it’s so trivial.
it’s a tell.
a tell more hateful than afro’s yuge polo pony shirt.
A well known person talks negatively about another well known person. Fallacy of the single cause.
Life is happening for everyone.