The new Liberal campaign ad features a shot of Iggy standing in the woods. The long grass is dappled by sunlight streaming through the trees. He tells us we need a government that thinks big. He doesn't look much like a warrior king. He looks like a Harvard professor who has done a bunch of TV that educated people watch.
But a warrior king is what he longs to be. He's discovering that this is much, much tougher than being a philosopher king. “I've been a spectator for a lot of my life, but this is about being an actor and talking responsibilities,” he explains to Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. “It's hugely adversarial. It's combat. And you have to be ready for combat, and you have to lead troops into a kind of rhetorical battle. And you've got to show fight. This is not a seminar.”
