[1] Basham was previously the founding director of the Social Affairs Centre at the Canadian Fraser Institute.
He has published a number of books and contributed articles to a range of major US newspapers.
During the 2020 United States presidential election, Basham made comments supporting the Trump campaign's false claims of electoral fraud in an article he authored for the Daily Express, a middle-market British tabloid newspaper.
[7][8] Throughout the campaign, the Daily Express published polls commissioned with Basham's Democracy Institute showing that Trump would win with a landslide victory.
[9] He contributed to the 2004 book Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by David Haugen.