What Happened in Canada

“Our election up here is over and the guys I voted for lost …. What exactly happened to bring the Liberal party from a 16% approval rating a few months ago to 43.7% of the total vote on election day?” - Don Johnson

Related: How Donald Trump Upended Canadian Politics and Helped the Liberals Win - Challies

Discussion

It strikes me as well that as lovely as Canada is, making it a state (or several states) would be a death knell for conservative politics in the United States. Canadians are simply a fair amount more liberal than most of us south of the border.

So Trump's statements were not just offensive to Canadians, but asinine. The U.S. can impact Canada far better by hopefully being a good example that Canadians will want to emulate, not by expansion.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.