He didn’t exactly fall on his sword, but you gotta like Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for resigning because his popularity had fallen to Bush-like levels.
The NY Times put it like this: “Mr. Abe, deeply unpopular, had already been written off by Japan’s political establishment and news media, his political future measured in months.”
And, according to the Times, a Japanese political science professor put it like this: “the way Abe resigned suggests he lacked the qualifications to be prime minister in the first place.”
Why can’t the United States have a leader with self knowledge like that?
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