Canada

You already had 4 years to see. So did the US and they still chose to do it again.

The only people who care are already against dictatorships.

Stop calling it "Trump style". It already has a name that everyone knows and it is called Fascism.

We'll see. As an Albertan I'm hoping other voter pools will even recognize the harm for what it is. I have family members who would be absolutely thrilled to have abortion made illegal, forced Christianity in schools, homophobia/transphobia/Islamophobia, anti-immigration and hostile foreign policies, etc. There's a reason Alberta is called Canada's Texas.

Except that Trump-style government will have negative knock-on effects on the Canadian status quo, and people will inevitably blame the current administration for that...

Trump is going to put a 10% tarrif on Canadian goods. Conservatives and Liberals will likely push Trudeau to respond in kind, upping prices, all but guaranteeing a PP win because most of the people angry voting for the right now are not politically engaged.

The politically uninformed have no comprehension of cause and effect. They look up and shits expensive one day and they look at the people up at the top of various tiers of politics and blame them, or they get told they are at fault by the opposition, and even though that opposition passed the legislation when they were in power and a delayed effect is being seen, the uninformed voter takes that at face value and doesn't question it. They are uninformed and they like it that way. So they are a tool that can always be weaponised.

Nothing will stop PP coming in short of a miracle because those voters will not get informed by the next election.

To add on to that, provincial and country leaders have little direct control of prices today. Any oversight or controls have been severely hampered. They can make them worse, but any policy that may make them better will have a long lead time to take effect and will be unlikely to affect the global reality unless passed by someone like the US that has enough buying power to affect markets.

Neither Trudeau or Poliviere can solve the cost of living problem because Canada is too small a fish in a now global sea.

Nope.

This is going to shift Canadian politics to the right, and embolden the fascists. This just significantly increased Poilievre's chances of winning.

I hope the Liberals and NDP learn from Trump's surprisingly good results. Populism is really big right now and any party not embracing that as a means of staying relevant will not stand a chance of forming a government imo. (See the carbon rebate debacle, for example. I don't like this, but it's how I see things in the era of most people getting their news on billionaire-run social media platforms). Unfortunately, I do not foresee Trudeau stepping aside or acting with any 'shape up or ship out' pressure to adapt

The media, and the other parties, would have to actually tie Milhouse to Trump in some meaningful way for that to actually matter. People, genuinely, will not do that on their own.

And I don't believe any institutions are going to do that, either, as it's seen as generally impolite, and institutions of power care more about decorum than actually being a help to anyone.

We already saw what a Trump Style government does to a country, now we get a repeat. In my opinion what killed the democrats was identity politics. Stop demonizing people and just tell them you are going to make their life affordable.

One of the recent Canadaland podcasts had an interesting analysis of Poilievre: the dude talks like Trump, but the current Conservative policies are pretty similar to Harper's.

Basically Poilievre is stumping with populism, but it seems likely that his government will be pretty standard.

I really hope that's the case.

The idiots voting for PP WANT the Trumpy carnage. It's what they're voting for. They're angry and stupid and want to see people who aren't them get hurt for being "woke."

Trumpy shit happening down south is just going to make them want the same shit here.

Maximum rationalisation mode: Maybe Conservatives will now be so confident that they've already won the next election that those of them who are just feigning the hate for trans people, gays, immigrants, refugees, socialists, liberals, opponents of fascism, and whatever other scapegoats they can find in order to win popular support will feel that they can safely tone it down a little and just coast to victory without needing to stir up even more fear and anger.

Whatever happens there winds up happening here too