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Originally Posted by Looch City
Lol remember the Godwin's discussions back when Trump was just coming out of the woodworks?
Now look where we are.
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At the time, I basically agreed with Frum's characterization: he said, "there are a lot of stops on the train to Hitler station". The train had not arrived at many of those stops yet, but had certainly crossed a few. It has, obviously, kept going.
Same is true here. It's not, for example, impossible that some Canadian conservative politician would think it's a good idea to take executive action under the guise of an alleged emergency to exert control over the streets of Ottawa to address criminal behaviour, in theory, but the only one to actually do it was Trudeau.
And the point - in case someone thinks I'm suggesting that was an equivalent act to what Trump just did - is precisely that although you can draw parallels between two actions by heads of state that appear similar in some ways, the context makes them wildly different in practice.