What I see about my own country, based on a decent sample of personal interactions with Trumpers, is that the power behind Trump is mostly a group of ignorant mean-spirited people who have forgotten the sacrifices and investments made over decades for our relationship with allies like Canada.
In other words, they don’t have the slightest idea of a methical or oral principle.
But when Carney speaks, he insinuates that our entire country is bent on destroying a world order which he can now leave behind in establishing new relationships over trade and “Arctic security”. Yet I see a Canadian leader whose country still has the same values upon which our relationship had been traditionally built.
I just haven’t heard anything coming from your run-of-the-mill Trump supporters that indicated any preconceived idea of spitting on NATO, spitting on our ancestors and their sacrifices, and seizing territory like Greenland as though we lost all of our principles.
So just who — and what interests of a more powerful and deliberate sort — are advocating for the insane, crazed nonsense of Trump? The mainstream voters on that side are just a bunch of clueless idiots who had no preconceived idea of what Trump was going to do.
I’m still amazed that the close supporters, cabinet members like Noem and Rubio, the GOP part of congress, are just attempting to destroy our country. I see no rhyme or reason behind it. So it all seems to me that we just have a sociopath in the White House acting as a loose cannon, spitting on everything like the heritage of our institutions and iconic monuments like Kennedy Center or the White House.
Or is there some cabal of GOP elite who have some deliberate idea of where all this is leading us? Because — if there is a deliberate idea — nobody has made clear what it is.