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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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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I know 6 ppl who went to the protest and 2 others who were going to go but didn't. Not one of them is a trucker. All of them are unvaccinated.
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