Anyways, moving on from the racist discussion, I came across a Globe article that does a nice job illustrating to Canadians why criticism does not stick to Trump, and why he has a very real chance to win this election:
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Originally Posted by The Globe and Mail
From Ford Nation to Trump Nation: ‘They are the same people’
But nobody in the U.S. seems interested in comparisons between Mr. Ford and Mr. Trump?
It’s not so much the comparison between Rob Ford or Doug Ford and Donald Trump. The big comparison is Ford Nation and Trump Nation. They are the same people. I am not trying to pretend that I am a great political pundit, but as soon as I saw Trump last year and heard the message and saw the type of people he was attracting, I just thought I know how this is going to play out.
Everybody was saying,‘Oh this guy doesn’t have a chance, he’s a buffoon.’ And I thought, I’ve heard all that before. I’ve even thought that before. And I was wrong. And people in Toronto were wrong. And people in the U.S. have been wrong for exactly the same reasons.
People, their brains, are still stuck in their conventional way of viewing politics. At the event I was at, it was a room full of people who were not voting for Donald Trump. But they still thought that the way to win the election was to denounce him.
And that is not in your view the way to do it? That won’t work?
No, that solidifies his base. And depending on what the basis of the criticism is … it just drives more support to him. I remember in Toronto I used to try to explain to the lefties on council, please tone down your anti-Ford rhetoric because it just gets him votes in Willowdale [Mr. Filion’s suburban Ward 23], where I was trying to not have him get any support. A lot of people thought that if the lefties on council are so against this guy, maybe I’ll vote for him.........
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