Trump endorsed the other guy. No doubt that was a big factor. It's nice to see Trump assisting liberalism, even if it's in other countries.
America’s 47th president plays unwitting ally to democracy everywhere except at home.
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Mark Carney, Canada’s 24th prime minister, was too tactful on Monday to actually give the US president credit for his party’s return to office. But it is the Lord’s truth. By coveting Canada’s sovereignty, Trump turned the semi-Trumpian Conservative party’s projected landslide into defeat in the space of weeks. [...] He might do a similar favour for Australia’s incumbent Labor party this weekend without even threatening to annex the country.
But Carney deserves credit for nailing his opponent Pierre Poilievre to the Trumpian mast. Instead of Poilievre’s me-too “Canada First”, Carney proclaimed “Canada Strong”. He did so while also distancing himself from Justin Trudeau, his deeply unpopular predecessor as Liberal prime minister. There are lessons here for Democrats. Had Kamala Harris thrown Joe Biden under the bus with the same dispatch as Carney did to Trudeau, she may have defeated Trump last November.
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It is hard to overstate how improbable this looked a few months ago. Carney worked for Goldman Sachs in London and New York. Then he headed the Bank of Canada. After that he became governor of the Bank of England. Then he joined a global investment firm. [...] If globalism had a name and a face, it would be Carney’s.
Only Trump could have converted these millstones into wings.
Financial Times
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