The federal government is hosting a summit in Toronto Friday aimed at bolstering the economy in the face of Canada's rapidly changing relationship with its largest trading partner.
Pretty sure he thinks soft power is woke or something. He just needs to look tough, regardless of the actual outcome. It explains threatening to double existing tariffs on Columbia over a dozen or two deportees. Backing down would make him look weak, and that wouldn’t animate his base, nevermind the economic consequences of doing that to a country that grows all our coffee.
It’s funny how he wants essentially the same thing as all these other ghouls, but wants to take the most unsubtle and ineffective route to get there. Maybe he is the harm reduction candidate?
To your question, this was already really noticeable in his first term. By being brash and uncouth and calling things what they are, rather than using doublespeak or just doing things in the shadows, he made the contradictions of imperialism really uncomfortable for a lot of people. In being direct he created the beginnings of pushback from people who would otherwise be perfectly fine with kids in cages, seizing other countries’ natural reources, etc.
Pretty sure he thinks soft power is woke or something. He just needs to look tough, regardless of the actual outcome. It explains threatening to double existing tariffs on Columbia over a dozen or two deportees. Backing down would make him look weak, and that wouldn’t animate his base, nevermind the economic consequences of doing that to a country that grows all our coffee.
It’s funny how he wants essentially the same thing as all these other ghouls, but wants to take the most unsubtle and ineffective route to get there. Maybe he is the harm reduction candidate?
To your question, this was already really noticeable in his first term. By being brash and uncouth and calling things what they are, rather than using doublespeak or just doing things in the shadows, he made the contradictions of imperialism really uncomfortable for a lot of people. In being direct he created the beginnings of pushback from people who would otherwise be perfectly fine with kids in cages, seizing other countries’ natural reources, etc.
I think that’s probably exactly what it is. He just needs to feel manly.