It matters not if Saunders has published two hundred books instead of only two.  It is subjectivity, fake news, a drive by smear and beyond all rational boundaries to suggest that Putin may have engineered Trump's election victory.   Trump and Hillary Clinton engineered The Donald's election victory.

Look, I know it is highly fashionable here to engage in insane and counter intuitive digs and smears and other runs at Trump and you lot do it all the time now that you need a substitute for Harper.

But it is depressing and alarming when actual columnists as opposed to mere posters like you and me (although unlike you I have had free lance columns including an op ed piece in the Globe published and paid for) succumb to this temptation.

With posters, it has for some time been open season on Trump and Harper and Kid gloves only on Trudeau.

If this has now morphed to the columnist level in a formerly leading newspaper, our democracy is in trouble indeed.