We Have To Be Truthful About This Mess

Our Civilization Is More Fragile Than We Think​

I have a short period of time to write an addendum to today’s earlier post. In that previous diary entry (subscriber-only), I led with an angry complaint about Donald Trump’s role in saving Canada’s odious Liberals from the political abyss, through his taunting and trolling of Canadians. (His tariffs no doubt had a big role too, but certainly his frequent mocking of the Canadian people played a role.) I’m seeing a lot of conservative Americans on social media this morning saying that the fault is 100 percent Canadian voters’. In a basic sense, that is true. But this position seems to be more about exonerating Trump from some of the blame than it is to explain what actually happened.

I don’t want to get into the ins and outs of the “Who lost Canada?” question, but I want to talk briefly about an ancillary but important issue. And it’s this: the urgent need for steady, wise government in this combustible time.

My basic point is that even though I supported the Trump candidacy, and am still grateful that he is president and not Kamala Harris, that does not absolve Trump of the responsibility to use his power wisely. That is a truism, I guess, about any politician. But it’s massively important at this juncture in history, for reasons that Prof. David Betz and Ralph Schoelhammer discuss in this must-listen podcast. If you listen to nothing else today, make it this one:

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