Trump’s logic was that it was an Obama accomplishment so it had to be reversed regardless.
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“I’ll teach him not to make fun of me!!”
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It is as simple as that with Trump.
Carney is being honest with voters. The pivot away from the US will be painful but it is necessary.
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I don’t think the midterms will change tRump.
He can keep on tweet/triggering and signing executive orders and Congress and Courts will be unable to undo them.
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If the Dems get control of at least one house of Congress, they gain the ability to file legal actions with fewer issues of standing.
The problem is that between advancing dementia and the Dems having some ability to actually be a foil to his efforts, the Glorious Geezer is at risk of becoming more unhinged…and that the erosion of GOP support among its base could likely reverse as the GOP begins to rally around Dems being able block the Glorious Geezer’s decrees.
IIRC, individual congresspeople don’t have standing to sue the president for simply not following the law. The open question is whether a majority of one chamber would have standing. I can’t find anything that says that issue has been litigated.
That’s why I said “fewer issues of standing”. Wishful thinking, perhaps…but it’s a little better than the current status quo. It’s not impossible that Barrett and/or Kavanaugh might side with Roberts and the liberal justices when the question comes up.
I’m sure Roberts and Co will Calvin Ball the issue to whatever advantage they like which will probably further make expanding the SC a pretty hot topic of conversation heading into the 2028 election cycle.
The last set of US tariffs on Canada was just the tip of the spear in the US trade war with Canada. There were earlier tariffs, other actions, threats, etc., that Greer has ignored in his comments in the link. Saying that the US does not consider it as an economic assault on Canada because it does not affect the US greatly, is a bit like telling the Iranians that the US assault on them is not a war because it is not hurting Americans much. One has to look at the impact on the other country! And there has been much job loss in certain Canadian companies as a result of the US tariffs.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-unhinged-us-trade-jamieson-greer-9.7337101
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IMF dropped their choice for chief economist because he spoke the truth about Trump’s tariffs.
The pivot away from the US will hurt a lot of people, but it’s the last time we will be threatened. Once the country has shown they can dispense with their largest trading partner, there’s not much leverage left to hold over us. Act irrationally and we will just go somewhere else.
I think a lot of Canadians are quite happy to lessen our dependence on the US, which is why they’re not too concerned about the short term pain
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It’ll take decades to fully move away, geography constrains us, but we’ll never make the mistake of increasing integration again.
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It’s a shame that it has to be this way because of the hubris and short-sightedness of the MAGA loons. A strong trade relationship with neighboring countries is typically a win-win scenario. It hurts both countries to walk away from a good thing like that.
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Trump just lives to poke a stick in his eye.
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You would think all those AP economics courses would have produced an educated electorate, but alas.