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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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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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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@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 …Show this thread
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See: pickup trucks...
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we love our zeppelins folks, we love our zeppelins and our powerful airships
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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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If you want some vehicle-identity politics, just dip into a local discussion on a proposed bike lane
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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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