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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 31

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Acyn

      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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      Trump: We want those great Canadian Truckers to know we are with them all the way pic.twitter.com/u6fuhRppyI
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 31

      2. As @CarlBeijer usefully points out, there's a history of the hard right trying to mobilize truckers, usually unsuccessfully: a 2013 anti-Obama protest (30 trucks) & a 2021 Australian one (2 trucks). https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/truckers-sit-out-canadas-freedom …pic.twitter.com/dLWAxqjHsl

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 31

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 31

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 31

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 31

          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 …

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        1. Badges?‏ @sm_rose Jan 31
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          There is some measure of delight in seeing those who rushed to embrace finding themselves to have publicly endorsed the ugliest of the ugly. Like finding that your date has the worst halitosis halfway through the kiss. Entirely self-induced.

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