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I don't know what impact the Trump administration is having on the likelihood of conservatives having political power in the US in the future, but it sure isn't having a positive effect on conservatives in Canada.
It's because their playbook has been the same populist "get the elite out of politics" nonsense that the GOP have been pushing since 2015.
Turns out that wanting to be like MAGA really backfired once they wanted to make an enemy out of Canada. We have plenty of fascists up here too, but even they still want to be Canadian.
Honestly, I'd say that a lot of Trumpism's stuff is more-or-less in line with the stuff that the John Birch Society has promoted, and that goes waaaaay back. I mean, Trump talking about annexing Canada/Panama/whatever, no
in fact, that's one of the few cases that I think that they'd take a dead-opposite position on, since they've a horror of the North American Union. But there's a lot of overlap outside that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
The results from the Leave Referendum in Britain, almost from one day to the next crushed in the rest of the EU any support for even just having a referendum about leaving the EU and caused pretty much all Far-Right parties to stop talking about leaving the EU.
Maybe the US being captured by a somewhat similar far-right ideology lead by equally incompetent people and which is equally antagonistic towards its neighbors (and I was in Britain during the Leave campaign and the Leave bunch were antagonistic, not merely wanting for Britain to leave the EU, but actually wanting to hurt the EU) will crush the chances of similar political ideologies in America's neighbors.
Me being in Europe I hope this is the case and I further hope, it will crush American-style Far-Right ideas all over the World.
Probably a stupid question but how would conservatives differentiate from the liberals on the question of US annexation?
I'm so used to seeing conservatives play opposites with liberal positions just to be contrarian, the natural assumption is that if liberals are vehemently opposed to US encroachment then the conservatives will be more receptive... but in this case that seems antithetical to a sovereign government?
Presumably... their message would be something along the lines of strengthening the relationship with US govt while retaining sovereignty and reducing the impact of tariffs.
That's one issue where they both agree. The conservatives want to be more like the US with lower taxes and fewer regulations, but they still want to be Canadian.
Then why won't Pollievre even look at the intel on who in the CPC may be a foreign asset?
It took weeks for Pollievre to come out as being on Canada's side in this trade war. It's only when his chances of winning an election started evaporating he did that.
Pollievre is only Canadian when there's no other option for him to get power. That dude has collaborator written all over him. He's only for Vichy Canada.
There's also an election coming up in Australia and the position of the conservative opposition is to give Trump whatever he wants. So contarianism is alive and well there.
Canadian conservatives can be magas. I know one of them. Absolutely delusional. A dozen excuses for everything trump does and says, up to and including annexing their country FFS.
There were Ontarians running around with Trump stickers and Fuck Trudeau flags on their trucks. There were dumbasses talking about their first amendment rights as if they were American already. Canada has its share of Trumpist traitors who would be only too glad to submit their country to the emperor's rule.