Democrats should research Canada and maybe even go there. But do it for the right reason: To learn how to fight.
Protesters march in front of Trump tower in Chicago
About 200 people in Chicago marched in front of the Trump International Hotel and Tower protesting his White House win.
Democrats are doing it again. They’re threatening to bolt to Canada after Donald Trump got elected president.
In 2016, they so overwhelmed the internet that they crashed Canada’s immigration website.
Now, they’re at it again.
This week, Google searches for “immigrate to Canada” and “moving to Canada” spiked by 5,000%, reports Nexstar Media Group in The Hill.
Those searches peaked on the morning of Nov. 5 as Americans on the East Coast awoke to the news that Donald Trump had painted the electoral map red.
The greater share of those searches came from liberal states — Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Colorado and New Mexico, The Hill reported. Newly red states Michigan and Wisconsin also contributed mightily to that tally.
The Canada you imagine doesn’t exist anymore
Go ahead, Democrats. Research Canada. Move there if you feel you have to.
But do it for the right reason.
Because if you’re going to Canada to find a safe space from the MAGA red hats and a Trump White House, you’re in for an unpleasant surprise.
The Canada of Justin Trudeau, the Liberal Party prime minister who is woke and green and internationalist in his outlook, is rapidly disappearing.
Canada went woke faster and further than the United States, and when Canadians, like Americans, finally had a belly full of it, they pushed back hard.
Justin Trudeau’s popularity is in the toilet. He is less popular than Joe Biden. His popularity rating stands at 33%, five points lower than Biden’s.
Young Canadians actually love Trump
Canadians, like Americans, are fed up with the left’s identity politics and social justice that held sway as their government policies stoked inflation and high rents and made everyday living unaffordable.
Now, the most popular politician in the country is a young conservative, Pierre Poilievre, who is riding a wave of support from young people who want to return their country to sanity.
Poilievre is poised to become the next Canadian prime minister and to throw in reverse the high-tax, high-inflation state that Trudeau built.
And get this. A recent poll shows that Donald Trump is more popular than their own prime minister among young Canadians, the Canadian newspaper National Post reports.
In fact, young Canadians like Trump even more than young Americans do.
Trudeau is speaking like Trump on immigration
The Liberal Party of Canada is slow to learn. But they are starting to wise up, smacked across the head by a few years of declining poll numbers and lost elections.
Trudeau these days is starting to sound like the orange man who speaks the Queens’ English (that’s Queens, N.Y.).
Trudeau is about to significantly reduce the number of immigrants allowed into Canada, the BBC reports.
That could make things a little difficult for highly sensitive American liberals who cannot abide living in Trump’s America. Immigrating to Canada might not be so simple in the future.
So, I’ll say this, if you must go to Canada, do it for the right reason.
Don’t do it because your fragile mental state can’t cope. That’s un-American. American’s don’t back down from fights.
If you go to Canada, go to see a politician that has faced much longer odds in his country than you’ll ever face in yours.
What liberals can learn from Poilievre
When Pierre Poilievre began his project to restore common sense in Canada and put the “common people” back in control, the Liberals had a firm grip on the nation. The Conservatives were on the outs.
The now 45-year-old Poilievre took to the internet not with emotion or hysterics, but raw data — facts about Trudeau’s economy that showed why it was making Canadians poor.
In plain English and French (he’s bilingual), he simplified and explained the problems facing the nation. He stayed focused on the core challenges of modern life — pocketbook issues, paychecks and rent.
And he brilliantly used the digital web to build a coalition of young and old who have made him the heir apparent to the prime minister’s office.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a liberal, you can learn from Poilievre. He is showing you how to take your ideals and build a new movement using a vehicle you know well — social media — and using it responsibly.
Fight for your ideals on X, with facts
Poilievre is highly educated. He’s literate in government, economics and the law, and he’s fluent in digital communications.
Learn from him, then come back to this country and fight for your ideals.
Don’t do what other liberals are doing in the states, working to shut down free speech. Calling X (formerly Twitter) a platform for white supremacy and urging the federal government to regulate it because you don’t like Elon Musk or the free flow of conservative speech.
Use X the way Poilievre uses X to educate Canadian voters and to win them to his cause. Use it to build a liberal coalition that stands as the loyal opposition to MAGA.
Because if you think you can snap your fingers and X will go away, I have some more news about Canada you probably hadn’t anticipated.
Guess which American social media platform just became Canada’s No. 1 news app on the App Store?
Phil Boas is an editorial columnist with The Arizona Republic. Email him at phil.boas@arizonarepublic.com.
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