The truckers’ protest in Ottawa is the latest barrage from the world’s disaffected in the revolt that found expression in the 2016 election of Donald Trump; the 2017 Unite the Right march on Charlottesville, Va.; the rise of QAnon; and the Jan. 6 insurrection in the halls of Congress.
One thing that stands out in the Canadian truckers’ protests against vaccination requirements specifically and the Trudeau government generally is the strong support they are getting from conservative political leaders and media figures in this country.
“We want those great Canadian truckers to know that we are with them all the way,” Trump told rallygoers in Conroe, Texas, on Jan. 29. “I see they have Trump signs all over the place and I’m proud that they do,” he added. CONTINUED
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times
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