Imagine a Trumpdeau. You can't.

That’s all true. But it misses the more important point. Which is that if Trump had taken such a step, the banks would not have complied. Hardly any private institutions would have complied. They would have calculated correctly, and put their faith in the permanent members of the executive branch, who would refuse to comply, or openly undermine the president’s commands, whims, and wishes — as the Pentagon often did during Trump’s term. They would have faith in the judiciary, that it too would meet this novel challenge with novelties of its own.

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Right now, the people who donated to the truckers via GiveSendGo, a platform built by conservative Christians to do crowdfunding that could not be canceled, are having their names and data leaked all over the Internet so that CBC, the Canadian public broadcaster, and private citizens can harass them, and presumably strip them of their livelihoods — a repeat of the witch hunt that happened after Proposition 8 in California.

Where was this urgency to disrupt and end the scores of church burnings across Canada last year? It was nowhere. Prime Minister Trudeau called the arsons “fully understandable.” The supposed justification for these rages — supposed mass graves at Catholic schools — could not be found or substantiated upon investigation.

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