Jonah Goldberg: American reactions to Canada’s trucker protests shows how much our politics have changed
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Feb 15, 2022
3 minutes
On Monday, Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act in order to clear out the trucker protests in Ottawa.
From the beginning, I’ve remained quietly fascinated by the whole spectacle. Quietly, because I’ve struggled to figure out what I think about them, fascinated because they are a window on the political transformations on both sides of the 49th parallel.
The protests began as a revolt against a new and ill-advised vaccine mandate in January requiring unvaccinated truckers to
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