Trump's return has directly led to liberal wins in Canada, Germany, Australia, and now the Vatican. Did MAGA just make the world Woke again?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I would question that - are you reading correlation as cause?
I can understand it for Canada due to President Trump's expansionist ideas, but elsewhere many countries had been seeing rises in very conservative, even quite hard-line views, so "liberal" gains might be a reaction to those there.
As for "woke"... in what sense? I know its etymology but in the last few years it has become used so loosely and so often by all and sundry to sneer at anything the user dislikes, that it no longer means anything.
(I placed "liberal" in quote marks because I took it in its political sense, meaning Left-leaning, which is not necessarily its true meaning.)
I can understand it for Canada due to President Trump's expansionist ideas, but elsewhere many countries had been seeing rises in very conservative, even quite hard-line views, so "liberal" gains might be a reaction to those there.
As for "woke"... in what sense? I know its etymology but in the last few years it has become used so loosely and so often by all and sundry to sneer at anything the user dislikes, that it no longer means anything.
(I placed "liberal" in quote marks because I took it in its political sense, meaning Left-leaning, which is not necessarily its true meaning.)
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@ArishMell True but there is no doubt that Mark Carney's win was directly caused by Trump, and to a lesser extent Peter Dutton losing his seat in Australia was caused by Trump as he was seen as having some very Trump-like qualities. Germany's election, OK a "liberal" party has not been elected, and I think the queasiness there against the far-right was caused by Trump's closeness to Musk. If it wasn't for Trump, Musk would not have made his "salutes from the heart"...