And yet, Carrie Lam did sell out Hong Kong to Chinese annexation, and was silent as student protest leaders were black-bagged and dragged off to the mainland fo

And yet, Carrie Lam did sell out Hong Kong to Chinese annexation, and was silent as student protest leaders were black-bagged and dragged off to the mainland for torturing. Her approval rating at that point bottomed out in the single digits; but that is what she did. Not every politician is motivated solely by winning one more election. If US annexation of Canada started to look like a fait accompli, and Trump was threatening terrible retributions for anyone who resisted him—which politicians would resist, and which would become Carrie Lams, or Pétains?