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> Either Canada would immediately be the largest state and deliver a massive House majority to one obvious party or, if the provinces joined separately, an over
by TMWNN 2mo ago
> Either Canada would immediately be the largest state and deliver a massive House majority to one obvious party or, if the provinces joined separately, an overwhelming Senatorial majority to that same party. I don't think that's desirable for the US.
Americans on either side of politics think that Canada is full of super-leftists (and there is no shortage), and Canadians love repeating the "Canadian Conservatives are more leftist than American Democrats" nonsense. But were Canada a part of the US in 2016, Trump would have won AB, SK, and quite possibly enough of the GTA (the parts that loved Rob Ford, and as "Ford Country" has repeatedly won the province for Doug Ford) to win ON, the province most resembling MI/WI/PA, the three states that Trump unexpectedly won the election with. 2024? Very good chance he also takes some/all of BC, MB, NS, and NL.
Going back to southern Ontario, without the NDP-voting north, it is even more a swing state that the GOP has a chance to win.
- rjrjrjrj 2mo agoYou packed a remarkable amount of wrong into this comment.
- TMWNN 2mo agoFeel free to unpack the wrong. And no, your previous >Have you ever actually looked at the 2015 Federal Election results. SMH. won't cut it. As I said, look into "Ford Country"'s electoral results, and AB and SK voting trends (and the whole Western alienation phenomenon, more broadly). (And if you bring up Notley, or even worse the hoary "Canadian Conservatives are more leftist than American Democrats" cope, you automatically lose.)
- rjrjrjrj 2mo ago> Feel free to unpack the wrong. It is stupid on its face. Ford != Trump Trump would have won NS... because Tim Houston's Progressive Conservative party has the word "conservative" in the name? LOL