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Not Everyone Is Caving to Trump

March 25, 2025 at 8:08 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

https://politicalwire.com/2025/03/25/not-everyone-is-caving-to-trump/

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Mark Carney.

The former Bank of Canada governor — and now new prime minister — took a bold gamble: He made resisting Trump central to his campaign. Framing the upcoming Canadian election not just as a national choice but as a bulwark against Trump’s calls to annex his country, Carney flipped the script.

And if the polls are to be believed, it’s working.

The contrast with recent events in the U.S. couldn’t be more stark. While powerful institutions here appear unwilling — or unable — to stand up to Trump, Canada’s new leader is gaining ground by doing exactly that.

It’s a reminder that, sometimes, the way to beat a bully is to stand your ground. And voters might just reward you for it.

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Applegrove:

Canada has a lot to lose if we get annexed. We have good healthcare, great schools, a good distribution of wealth. We are like a Nordic country and we see American news and don't want bankruptcy (due to medical debt), guns (killing children) and MAGAs (who hate their fellow citizens and want them to feel pain). We meet people half way. It is not winner takes all. So we have real tangible things to lose and we know it. We are very together as a group. 90% of us are on the same page. Canadians are anxious, angry, not sleeping well and, coming out of shock. We are resolute. As we unite our seemingly frivoulus divisions go away, Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, is losing his chance at power. He was way ahead in the polls 3 months ago. He's behind Carney now. He has a 1% chance at forming a Majority Government.

We get to inhabit another country so it is an easier call to fight Trump. Easier for us to stand up. It is frightening in our guts, but not gut twisting. Following our guts still works. It is a simple attack Trump makes on us and not a relentless attack on our civil society yet. Not like what Trump is doing to government, judges, law firms, the press and on and on in the USA and making examples of people. Not to mention all the jobs lost and security and welfare degraded. That will come. We still have civil society in Canada and that is buoying us up. In fact, our civil society has grown substantially in the last few months. Maybe that is the secret sauce and why town halls are so effective in the USA.