TRUDEAU HAS LOST HIS HALO

Rex Murphy:  So what does all this mean, now, for Mr. Trudeau, who under the more congenial moons of 2015 put much of the world’s press in the kind of swoon normally served up only for alumni of Survivor or Lady Gaga epiphanies? Well, it means those days are gone for good.
   It’ll be a while before Vogue comes calling again. Or Vanity Fair, oracle of the yuppie woke, teases out such spellbinding headlines as “Let Justin Trudeau in His Pajamas Brighten Your Monday,” followed by the beautiful kite tail of a sub-head “Not all superheroes wear capes.” Which is shorthand for saying that the “stylishness” component of the Trudeau brand, the meretricious appeal of the politician as celebrity, is done and gone. The charisma of celebrity as opposed to the celebrity of accomplishment or real achievement, is always a thin halo, and can vanish with a tweet. Once evaporated it never returns.
  He now walks the ground like every other politician, as pedestrian as the rest of them.