The extent and disingenuousness of elite attacks on the protesters has astounded even me—a reformed Canadian who grew up on a steady diet of Canuckprop. It’s not as though Canadians are unused to organized protests. To the contrary, they have become quite used to preferred protesters, such as “indigenous peoples,” occupying things—including people’s houses—and the government doing essentially nothing for months or even years at a time. Trudeau himself has boasted of his participation in protests which suit officially approved views, such as Canada’s copycat Black Lives Matter disruptions which, if possible, were even more inane (though less violent) than their American counterparts.
The revulsion of the elites stems from the fact that, having encouraged a culture of near-permanent protest, the protesting has now metastasized, and the folks who this week control the streets of Ottawa simply don’t travel in bien-pensant circles, or have the ears of those who do. And they are also very much in the faces, and parking spaces, of the elites.
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