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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 1

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Acyn

      1. Trump's championing of "those great Canadian Truckers" is part of the larger trend of right-wing vehicular identity politics. Remember "our beautiful boaters"? Remember "the war on cars"?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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 1

      2. Vehicular identity politics makes sense since cars/boats/trucks are property that people also come to identify with and sometimes resent restrictions on: I Can't Drive 55, etc.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 1

          3. Truckers are especially useful for the right because of its ambiguous class identity: truckers can be both small business owners (if they own their rig) and working class (if employees). A truckers movement can allow a conflation of the 2 which is useful to the right.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 1

          4. There's been a fair bit of history of right-wing movements using or co-opting truckers protest (most notoriously in Chile under Allende). Many of these have flopped (2013 anti-Obama convoy got 30 trucks). The current Canadian one is bigger than most (although still not large)

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 1

          5. @NoLore & I talk about the trucker's protest in the context of right-wing attempts to co-opt pandemic angst & class anger.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-those-great-canadian-truckers?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …

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        1. Bob Esplin‏ @BobEsplin Feb 1
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          See: pickup trucks...

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        2. Oliver Willis‏Verified account @owillis Feb 1
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          we love our zeppelins folks, we love our zeppelins and our powerful airships

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        1.  👑 𝕽𝖔𝖞𝖆𝖑  👑‏ @royaltheartist Feb 1
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          There's a wealth dynamic to it, too. Cars are expensive, and even if you own it outright it's probably still the second most expensive thing someone pays for each year. And part of the cultural identity is that Wealth can do whatever it damn well pleases

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        1. Car Free in PVD‏ @carfreepvd Feb 1
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          If you want some vehicle-identity politics, just dip into a local discussion on a proposed bike lane

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        1. Kip Williams sort of‏ @kiptw Feb 1
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          They're handy as weapons, too, with little risk to your person or your freedom, if you choose the right jurisdiction.

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