O Canada!
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Brief thoughts on MAGA’s Canadian vacation…
No one has thought very seriously about this because it is not a very serious proposal and, consequently, not worthy of serious thought.
Canada and the United States have been neighborly since the 19th century. World War II did not result in unification, nor did the Cold War. It is unlikely that the current ethno-nationalist mood in the United States will result in a plan for unification that could appeal to Canada.
Even if we interpret Trump’s remarks as a classic bargaining “overask,” no one in Canada is worried about unification at the barrel of a gun, and few are interested in unification in the face of a barrel of tariffs.
We are supposed to take Trump seriously rather than literally, but in Canada, it’s pretty impossible to take him seriously.