As for May, her clinical standoffishness is entirely of a piece with the way she has behaved for the best part of the two and a half years since the vote, and certainly since the 2017 election. One of the most remarkable, and indeed excruciating, things about May has been her insistence on governing like she's got a landslide majority. Why has no one told her? She's the Florence Foster Jenkins of politics, insulated from the realities of her situation by weird or venal enablers.

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