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The “moment” is the duration of the Trump administration.

Lots of people are keen to blame everything on Trump, imagining that if he would just go away everything would go back to “normal.” But Trump is not the cause of this, he is the symptom of this. America has been trending in this direction for many decades now, with increasingly corrupt and authoritarian/isolationist governments that the electorate has been putting into power. It’s not going to suddenly reverse if Trump suffers a fatal brain clog tomorrow. There might be a moment of respite but that’s not something to depend on as a long-term change for the better, only as breathing room to further prepare for America’s continued degradation.

It’s not really a “moment”, this is the cumulation of a long-term trend.

Do it, you fat orange pussy. You still don’t understand what tariffs are.

Nah, embarrassment makes him madder.

You’re regurgitating old US government propaganda and you don’t even realize it.

Ironically, this is also “don’t blame us, it was our government.”

There’s these things called “primary elections” you could be using to get better candidates.

Ironically, I think weakening some of those reputational things you mention will also weaken Canada’s right wing by taking the wind out of many of their grievances. Our conservative parties are already Frankenstein coalitions of moderate right-wingers and the more extreme far-right, hopefully this will crack the sutures.

Which is now “the Global Community.”

There’s two parties you could have voted for, you put the other one in charge in the previous term and it didn’t help.

The problem is that America is democratic and it’s getting the government that its voters are demanding.

If you want to become Canadian, why not move to Canada? There’s an immigration process you can apply for.

You’re still asking us to do all the hard work for you.

Maybe now’s the time for them to become left-wing gun nuts, then. Or did guns suddenly become hard to come by in America?

As long as it’s other people who are made homeless, locked up, and killed by your government, that’s a price worth paying, eh?

I’m well aware that Americans are just regular people and are going to have all the same regular-person failings that allow authoritarians to take over as well. But Americans have spent generations bragging triumphantly about how different and better they were and how it couldn’t happen there, so I don’t think I’ll be letting that slide quite yet.

It’s nice to be able to brag about how democratic your country is until the administration that your democracy put into power starts doing awful things. Then suddenly “please forgive us, this has nothing to do with us.”

I don’t condemn every Russian because Putin is a giant asshole, I condemn them because they’re content to “stay out of politics” and let Putin use their country to commit atrocities against their innocent neighbours. I condemn all of those who haven’t taken at least the same risks and efforts that their neighbours are forced to take to defend themselves.

I like that “realistic” caveat that you’ve thrown in there. Does that mean that all that rhetoric about the 2nd Amendment and “the tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants” was never realistic?

That, and the common refrain of “I can’t go to the protest, I need my job” clearly indicates that freedom has a price tag for them and it’s surprisingly low.

Please don’t hold it against all of us.

Sorry, running out of sympathy here. All my life Americans have talked a big game about how anti-tyrant they are, how their democracy is so wonderful and in the event that it fails they’ve got their precious guns to go set things right. Land of the free, home of the brave.

You don’t get to talk that big game and then flip over to “please don’t hold it against us!” Without getting called on it. I keep seeing Americans begging for other countries to come in and “save” them. Isn’t that the problem here? Sort your own problems out. The only thing the rest of the world is obligated to do is keep you contained.

No, you’re not understanding. Those states may be “left-leaning” on the American political spectrum, but they’re still far right from the Canadian perspective. We do not want Americans.

Sort yourselves out, other countries aren’t coming to your rescue and would appreciate if you’d keep your politics more to yourself.

Canadian here. We very much do not want any American territory. It’s got Americans in it.

My main concern is that this is what a lot of people (myself included) thought about Trump sticking around. We need to remain on guard no matter how awful PP is, because you just never know how low the electorate will go.