Trump Terror II: The Sequel
I had the pleasure of watching the November 5th US presidential election on Canada’s government owned, public broadcaster, CBC. I fully expected the Orange Menace to go down in flames.
Why would I associate the words “CBC” and “pleasure” ? There are few things more fun than watching a smug group of partisan journalists having their dreams shattered, on live TV.
As the display of Trump’s electoral college votes climbed, Rosemary Barton, everyone’s favourite CBC employee, looked like she wanted to scream “Americans are such idiots!” and storm off the set.
Included on the CBC panel were two Americans, one each from the Democratic and Republican parties, making the ratio of Democrat to Republican supporters in the room five to one. Very balanced, by CBC standards.
By stressing that many better educated voters had supported Ms. Harris, the Democratic Party strategist hinted that mass voter idiocy explains Trump’s victory. This is a theme the Democrats pushed in 2016, to explain how millions of “deplorables” were just too stupid and sexist to support Hillary Clinton. Looks like the Democrats learned nothing from that experience. Alleged voter stupidity is a drum that has been beaten in the media on both sides of the 49th Parallel since November 5th.
Although Trump won a second term, orange is not the new black. Donald Trump is obnoxious and widely disliked. Media and especially women hate him and were keen to support cackling Kamala Harris, a last minute substitute whose main positive attribute was not being Donald Trump.
According to many, a Trump- led America means the end of civilization as we know it. Prepare for the end of American democracy. Seas boiling. Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats, living together!
In fact, American political institutions are much more democratic and robust than Canada’s. Numerical “control” of the House and Senate in the USA does not give a President anything approaching the near dictatorial powers of a majority Prime Minister in Canada.
Every piece of American legislation is a massive compromise and votes are less often whipped than they usually are here, because the US government doesn’t fall if one bill is defeated. The American Senate prevents tyranny of the majority, which is a permanent blight in Canada. The American President cannot manipulate election dates to suit himself, as our Prime Ministers do.
Nonetheless, as they hilariously did in 2016, many American “progressives” are posting videos of themselves throwing anti Trump tantrums in their cars, homes and offices. Like this presumed woman in 2016, they’re mad as Hell, again, and they're not going to take it anymore:
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Hollywood Democrats again threaten to move to Canada, as actors do every time a Republican President occupies the White House. As always, none of these tanned tycoons will actually leave the land of Porsches, plastic surgery and palm trees. Why would they? Comedian Ellen DeGeneres actually moved to the UK, but she’ll be back in California after one soggy winter in Blighty.
Canadian progressives’ response to the Monster of Mar a Lago’s return is even funnier, because it’s dripping with unearned smugness. Just as American lefties sneer at the rubes in the so-called “flyover states” who supported Trump, Canadian progressives mock the USA for having elected such an embarrassing leader.
Our best response to the many Canadians who feel politically superior to Americans is two words: “Justin Trudeau”.
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For most of a decade, Justin Trudeau has been the least competent and most destructive, corrupt leader in Canadian history. An actor by training and inclination, Trudeau presides over a political system that pits regions against each other and actively prevents politicians from representing their constituents.
That’s a structural Canadian problem, no matter who is Prime Minister. Because of Canada’s lack of term limits, Trudeau could still plague us for years to come, if Ontario and Quebec voters allow it.
Canada is hobbled by declining private investment, weak productivity, rationed health care, unaffordable housing, high taxes, blatant regional favouritism, federal sabotage of the leading export industry, limited consumer choice and oligopolistic pricing by banks, cell phone providers, dairy producers and airlines.
During his first term, Trump pushed Trudeau to ditch Quebec’s outrageous dairy cartel and to increase defence spending to meet our NATO commitments. Trudeau and his innumerate, recently departed flunky, Chrystia Freeland, refused, to Canadian consumers’ detriment.
Trump knows that America’s Gulf Coast refiners want to process Canadian heavy oil and he approved the Keystone XL pipeline, which sleepy Joe Biden later cravenly cancelled. Trump slashed US taxes, while Trudeau relentlessly borrows, overspends and over-taxes us. American economic productivity is the envy of the world, while Canada stagnates, with high unemployment and inflation, because nobody wants to invest in a country whose government sabotages its own economy.
That is, unless companies are bribed with our tax dollars to do so, as happened with Trudeau’s massive battery plant subsidies. Those plants are now stalled by bankruptcies and wilting demand for electric cars.
In his upcoming term, Trump has promised to undo Biden's anti oil and gas policies. That will reduce US energy costs and make Trudeau’s carbon tax- saddled Canada even less competitive. Canadians should hope that as President, Trump continues to push for more transborder competition in cosseted Canadian oligopolies like banking, cell phones, airlines and dairy. Economically illiterate, corrupt mimbo Trudeau has proven he doesn’t even understand Canada’s economic interests, let alone defend them.
Donald Trump’s second presidency isn’t going to impose 25% energy tariff inflation on US voters, any more than he built a southern border wall, funded by Mexico in his first term.
Indefensible Trudeau policies which irritate Trump, like slack border security, Quebec’s dairy cartel and parasitically low military spending despite massively wasteful spending everywhere else, need to be changed anyway, for Canada’s sake. Let’s get on with it.
There are many reasons for Canadians to feel proud of our country, but our political and economic systems are nothing to brag about.
So when Canadian friends scoff at our American neighbours, let’s look in the mirror before joining the hecklers. And let’s get rid of loathsome lightweight Trudeau as soon as he deigns to call an election.
Agree that Cdn media coverage of the US election was totally cringe. This is the feminist oligarchy meeting a brick wall and bc they are so far down the well most cannot even process it and will live in their delusional world forever.
This is sadly linked to the declining fortunes of Canada. We are effectively the East Germany of North America, a 19th century made up country created out of the debris of British imperialism to blockade the expansion of US republicanism and evil ideas of Benjamin Franklin abd others. We have been hobbled by this depraved legacy of British condescension and arrogance for over 200 years, similar to other outposts of the white Anglo empire Australia and NZ. Out of all of this I've been watching Kevin OLeary, my high school classmate from Montreal (a decade after me 😊) who I've never had a lot of time for, but who has correctly put his finger on the Trudeau problem and has opened a conversation about Canada's economic future. We have a choice to make. In 1990 The East Germans realized their made up country was unsustainable. In the 21st century Canada should ask why it still exists and in a rapidly changing economic landscape how can we survive. We are functionally a US vassal state but with none of the advantages of membership. Crumbling health "system" collapsing currency consistent low productivity declining GDP per cap chronic housing shortages and more all point to an unhappy future. Will the Canadian oligarchy realize their own Ottawa empire is not sustainable?