Trudeau being Trudeau, he couldn’t resist overreaching in Berlin. Citing Thomas Mann, he argued that “the infinite dignity of each individual means no one should get left out (of society).”
“This is also true for people who hold different political views,” he averred, unicycling alarmingly close to the cliff edge. “We all need to commit to more listening and less shouting. Diversity of ideas helps us learn from one another. Talking with people who think differently from us is how we challenge ourselves, and challenging ourselves is how we grow.”
Trudeau is famous for framing his own past missteps as a chance for the rest of us to reflect on our own shortcomings. It’s infuriating. Here, though, he’s not even copping to his own misdeeds. Trudeau is a man who has spent much of the past seven months deliberately inflaming what divisions we have: first during last year’s election campaign, which saw him totally repudiate his previous calls to understand and not turn against the vaccine-resistant; and then during the trucker convoy-cum-occupation of downtown Ottawa, which he insisted on casting as a gathering of neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates and no one with any halfway legitimate grievances whatsoever.
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