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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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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Kinda like farmers & farmworkers?
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Also brown. Hey we can't be racist, look at my work buddies
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And (usually) middle-class by income.https://www.truckerstrainingcanada.com/truck-drivers-salary-canada/ …
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The truckers' strike in Chile in 1972... heralding the onslaught of Pinochet, CIA, and fascism...
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Man, if those were water protectors, or land defenders... They wouldn't have public or institutional support. They'd be beaten and jailed and given 20 years each to send a message. What a joke
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He’s also priming the pump with ideas about how to hold the country hostage when he or his family are charged etc
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