Justin Trudeau Just Showed American Democrats How to Win the Next Election
Promises to tax the rich and to make infrastructure investment a priorityalong with an embrace of diversitybeat the right in Canada.
By John Nichols
It may be true that American Democrats have nothing better to do than wait for Joe Biden to decide whether he will mount a third bid for the presidency. Or, failing that, to try to figure out what it is about democratic socialism that might appeal to underemployed young people who are burdened with staggering student debt and face the prospect of getting kicked off a parents health insurance plan.
But if Americas Democrats could look away from the 2016 horse race for just a moment, they might actually learn something about going bigand winning bigfrom Justin Trudeau.
The 43-year-old leader of Canadas Liberal Party was not supposed to come out of the countrys 2015 election as its prime minister. At the start of the race, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, ally of George W. Bush, role model for Scott Walker, was locked in serious competition with a cautiously left-leaning New Democratic Party. The traditionally centrist Liberals (at their best vital center, at their worst blandly managerial), having been very nearly obliterated in the previous election, did not look particularly viable. And party leader Trudeau was frequently dismissed as the good-looking but inexperienced son of a great 20th-century prime minister.
Seen at the beginning of the campaign as the least ready for the election of the three main party leaders, observed the Toronto Star at the end of the campaign, Trudeau managed in 11 weeks to shape a compelling political narrative and provide Canadians with a credible alternative to Harper and the NDPs Thomas Mulcair.
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Cal33
(7,018 posts)little is ever published of whatever Bernie Sanders says or does. These are mighty huge
odds for anyone to overcome.
Because, democracy.
applegrove
(118,652 posts)is the internet which was well used by the liberals. They tried to start a fox news north in Canada but it failed.
Cal33
(7,018 posts)Americans. The Republican leaders want to keep the masses dumbed down so the masses would
be easier to control.
applegrove
(118,652 posts)for a neocon. Nothing more. Our former PM Harper was of that ilk. I hope that in his retirement from public office, he goes over all that he is done and realizes that the good things far outweight the neocon stuff he did.
WillyT
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musiclawyer
(2,335 posts)Despite a hostile media and establishment dems
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Hopefully trudeau won't capitulate to the Tories and piss away the lp momentum like the president did. Since the rcaf is pulling out of syria and the f35 has been cancelled already, things are looking good