1. Over the weekend, Trump hailed "those great Canadian truckers" protesting mandates. Joe Rogan, Jordan B Peterson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rob Schneider also love those Canadian truckers. What's going on?https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1487608620883738627 …
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3. As compared to those early fizzles, Canadian protest is relatively successful: generously maybe 1,000-1,500 trucks & 10-15,000 protestors. But that's piddling compared to other Canadian protests. 2019 climate protest had 1 million across country & 500,000 in Montreal.
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4. There are more than 300,000 truckers in Canada; the maybe 1,000 or 1,500 who drove trucks are a small minority (and many, as it turns out, aren't truckers). 20% of Canadian truckers are South Asian, but protest was overwhelmingly white. So not a truckers protest.
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5. Simply on the level of political optics, protest - rich with scenes of confederate flags & swastikas (only sometimes used ironically) as well buffoonery - was an embarrassment to right-wing pols who hoped to co-opt. Conservative pols ended up having to distance themselves.
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6. Yet for all its small size & clownishness, protest is surely sign of a new wave of far right activism feeding off broader public weariness at pandemic. Trump's endorsement not an accident. Its likely to be replicated.
@NoLore & I break it downhttps://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-those-great-canadian-truckers?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …Show this thread
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Some of current Canadian protest’s organizers were involved in fizzled right-wing “ United We Roll” truck thing, in favour of burning fossil fuels or something, a few years back.
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I live in Michigan and it seems like I remember protests with truckers blocking major roads here to the point emergency vehicles couldn’t get through. Why they weren’t cited I have no idea. The privilege is just….blech!
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Pretty sure something like this was going on when I visited Washington in September/October; a whole line of them on the Mall with signs about mandates, but they weren't actively annoying the folks just trying to go to the Smithsonian much.
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