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I'm less optimistic about this

In Canada, there's a looming post-Trudeau election. But I'm less optimistic that it will happen before the October deadline. The socialist NDP party leader Jagmeet Singh has indicated he would continue to support the Liberal party's new leader (likely Justin Trudeau policy clone, Mark Carney). Why? He has his pension locked in now. Well, his party has collapsed in the polls as a Liberal alternative now that the party has ditched Trudeau and someone else is taking his place (once again, likely Justin Trudeau policy clone, Mark Carney). He won't be so eager to tank his party or his legacy given that circumstance. And given that, it's looks like they'll just run out the clock.  The irony of that, is that it's more likely to help the Liberal party than the NDP.

Nevertheless, there are those who think the election will be in April.  I'm less optimistic than this:

The Democrats' intra-party civil war

Democrats were wrecked in the last election, even though many on the Left don't even recognize that fact yet. Then again, some have:

This is part of the root of why there's an intra-party civil war brewing within the Democratic Party. Self-awareness.

This version of the Democratic Party, which featured the progenitor of wokeism, Obama himself, as the leading presidential campaign trail surrogate for Harris, was thoroughly rejected in November by the American people. It turns out that voters didn't really know what they were signing up for when they embarked on an extended political journey of "hope" and "change." They weren't interested -- and aren't interested -- in legitimizing the juvenile genital mutilation and chemical castration that has been euphemistically sold as "gender-affirming care." They weren't interested -- and aren't interested -- in assenting to wide-scale importation and resettlement of foreigners whose cultures and customs are antithetical to our own.

Some leading Democrats do finally seem to get the memo. Former Clinton strategist James Carville, for instance, has called for Democrats to distance themselves from the excesses of woke civilizational arson. But many others disagree. There is no indication at all, for instance, that the ladies of "The View" have done any introspection: Shortly after November's electoral shellacking, cohost Sunny Hostin attributed Harris' loss to Donald Trump to "racism" and "misogyny." Surveying the left-of-center punditocracy scene, it often seems that there are far more Hostin-like voices of escalation than there are Carville-like voices of sobriety.

The battle for the heart of the Democrat party is not going to be a minor skirmish. a lot of the radicalism is now embedded in the party:

In order to recover their standing and regain lasting relevance as an electorally feasible national political party, Democrats are going to have to repudiate the entirety of their post-2008/post-Obama cultural legacy. That is the simple truth. The American people want a stable pocketbook, a stable border and a stable world stage. They're not interested in the Obama-Biden-Harris Democratic Party's idiosyncratic conception of waging a culture war.

Are Democrats up to such a challenge? The intraparty civil war is on -- but I certainly have my doubts. Unless and until they do repudiate their cultural militance, however, Democrats will continue to flounder about in irrelevance. Perhaps they'll need to get their clocks cleaned at the ballot box a few more times. That wouldn't be the worst thing.

While the civil war on the left is good news for conservatives, it does come with it's own set of risks. For example, Gavin Newsom has moved from a woke governor to suddenly rejecting wokeism in favor of a more centrist approach. Here's the problem, those who supposedly want to move back to the center were fully on board with the insanity just a few months ago. They are either being disingenuous now, or they were being disingenuous them then.  Either way they are merely opportunists and clearly not interested in, or respectful of, voters. These people are at this point, more dangerous than the woke  far left, who have no clue how out of touch they have become. They have destined themselves to a rump afterthought for at least a long time to come.

Trump Russia Ukraine situation seems to be on track

Trade need not be a war

I honestly believe Trump is wrong blanketing Canada in with Mexico and China in his tariffs.  I'm a Canadian but have been a staunch Trump supporter. Attacking a primary trade partner is a mutually assured destruction scenario. Canadians have been burdened with the stupidity of Justin Trudeau and are sick of him. He has caused untold suffering on Canadians. But this is causing Canadians to rally around him. It's causing former Trump allies within Canada to taking a more combative stance. 

Pierre Poilievre is taken from the mold of Donald Trump; even he's no longer thinking the way he was two months ago.  Trump has torpedoed trade, torpedoed a friendly partner, torpedoed inflation fighting in both countries, he has torpedoed goodwill, he has torpedoed international markets, he has torpedoed conservatism in Canada that was on the rise. It's tarnished America's reputation in many, many countries. 

There are going to be unintended consequences that come out of this, guaranteed. They won't be small, and they could have a long lasting negative impact on all involved.

I get what Trump is trying to do, I do. I still support his agenda. But what he is doing with Canada, he is not going about in the most productive way.

Starmer is a harmer

The U.K. prime minister, seems to want to keep the war going.