Justin Trudeau Resigns As Canadian Prime Minister

? BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to RESIGN Today

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 6, 2025

I can’t imagine why the Liberals are ditching Justin Trudeau??? pic.twitter.com/LKoYlxtm6D

— Christian Heiens ? (@ChristianHeiens) January 6, 2025

Lately, I have been comparing the present state of the American liberal ruling class after Trump’s victory in the 2024 election to the Southern Bourbons after the Civil War, and the victory of Elon Musk and Silicon Valley to the triumph of the railroads and industry in Reconstruction and the Gilded Age.

In a sense, “Civil War 2” is behind us now. The Trump era was a rebellion against the liberal ruling class that has dominated the country since the New Deal. Trump and the MAGA insurgents won. The fighting between the liberal elites and populist counter-elites didn’t take place on 19th century battlefields. Liberals are a race of lawyers. The fighting between the two sides, which began with Russiagate and the Mueller probe and ended with Jack Smith withdrawing the J6 case, took place in courtrooms. Violence isn’t necessary for one establishment to replace another. That’s what happened in 1933.

The downfall of the American liberal establishment is now reverberating around the world. It is like the head of the snake has been cut off or has disappeared. Justin Trudeau is now officially out in Canada. Keir Starmer is on the ropes in the UK. The German government has collapsed. The Freedom Party is poised to take power in Austria. The Atlantic is comparing it to the fall of Soviet communism in 1989.

The Atlantic:

“As I witnessed the despair and incomprehension of liberals worldwide after Donald Trump’s victory in November’s U.S. presidential election, I had a sinking feeling that I had been through this before. The moment took me back to 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, signaling the beginning of the end of Soviet Communism and the lifting of the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since the end of World War II. The difference was that the world that collapsed in 1989 was theirs, the Communists’. Now it is ours, the liberals’.

In 1989, I was living within a Warsaw Pact nation, in my final year of studying philosophy at Bulgaria’s Sofia University, when the world turned upside down. The whole experience felt like an extended course in French existentialism. To see the sudden end of something that we had been told would last forever was bewildering—liberating and alarming in equal measure. My fellow students and I were overwhelmed by the new sense of freedom, but we were also acutely conscious of the fragility of all things political. That radical rupture turned out to be a defining experience for my generation.

But the rupture was even broader—on a greater global scale—than many of us realized at the time. The year 1989 was indeed an annus mirabilis, but one very different from the way Western liberals have framed it for the past three decades. The resilience that the Chinese Communist Party demonstrated in suppressing the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square turned out to be more consequential than the fall of the Berlin Wall. For Russians, the most important aspect of 1989 was not the end of Communism, but the end of the Soviet empire, with the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan. It was thus the year that Osama bin Laden proclaimed the jihadists’ victory over the godless U.S.S.R. And 1989 was also when nationalism began to reclaim its political primacy in the former Yugoslavia. …”

We haven’t seen the full implications of what happened in 2024 yet.