Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?

For as long as we’ve had politicians, some of them have lied.

But like a snowball rolling downhill, the problem has picked up speed — and heft — in recent years thanks to a string of high-profile fudging of facts. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson didn’t hold a COVID birthday party so much as get “ambushed with a cake;” Justin Trudeau had “private meetings” in the capital planned for the first Truth and Reconciliation Day, yet turned up in Tofino, B.C.

The eye of the storm, of course, is American President Donald Trump, who has made it a matter of policy to “flood the zone with s**t,” as one of his advisers has put it, making much more serious false claims about everything from the results of national elections and the size of the crowds that cheer for him to whether or not his uncle