Canada is a nation defined by opposition to another nation. It's sad. The inferiority complex is baked in. I remember growing up, whenever The Simpsons or Family Guy mentioned Canada, the entire country would get excited just to be briefly noticed.
Our next aquatic renaming needs to be Lake Ontario. Since the Great Lakes have Lake Superior, the smaller lake should be Lake Inferior. Then we can start referring to its largest urban area, Toronto, as “the Inferiority Complex.”
To say that MAGAS is "actively hostile" to nationalists in other lands reclaiming their homes is completely wrong, of course. American nationalists would love to see nationalists of other countries rise up and take care of their own business. Let a million flowers bloom or whatever. We just don't think we have any obligation to moderate our own efforts to avoid upsetting theirs. Especially if that means we have to act like the milquetoast conservatives of the previous several decades who loved to lose respectably.
If Canadians who would otherwise lean right are so triggered by American bravado and occasional rudeness that they'll vote against their own interests in order to scold us, that's very sad for them, but...not our problem.
Canada is the first non-national nation, a post national experiment. Trump admittedly hurt her feelings so she goes to mother China. Not the kind mother others would choose, perhaps. Yes, a tipping point is being reached and chosen. But by whom?
Abortion rights, LGBTQ issues, immigration, and medical transitions for minors are defining tests of loyalty as progressive groups exercise growing leverage over primary elections. Now they supply ready-made legislation increasingly drawn from the Democratic Socialists of America platform which forms AOC. Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson come from the progressive nonprofit funnel. Give these people the match and they will burn your house down.
Haven't you heard? America is exceptional. Unlike all of Europe and Asia Minor, she had good fortune in her geography. July 4th is proudly and loudly celebrated each year. As to whether the American Imperium was good, bad, or worse than others past I leave to history.
You do have such an obligation, because to challenge the existing international order you need an international order of your own. It is your problem, it strange you don't see it, but I put that down to American parorchialism. Trump borrowed energy from the international right to achieve victory. Yes, he owes his allies at least something.
I guess I'd need to see the receipts on that. I remember him winning in 2016 because Dirt People in several Midwest states that the Clinton campaign took for granted turned out to support him in bigger numbers than the pollsters would admit they would. In 2024 he won because Musk bought Twitter and cluttered up the left's main organizational channel, and because Biden and Harris had been so awful that some billionaires, especially some of the techbros, realized there might be no energy to power their devices if the Democrats trashed things for another four years, and attempts to Fortify the election like 2020 fizzled without their help.
I think you underestimate the indifference of Americans to international opinion in general, let alone the international right. We didn't/don't feel energy coming from outside. If that makes us parochial, I guess we're parochial.
I don't *want* to replace one international order (a euphemism for empire) with another. That sounds like two wrongs making a right. By that logic, we're obligated to keep running a global empire forever.
The indifference of Americans in general IS a problem. One of the reasons why foreign networks formed around the political left, or the liberal order, is because they were not indifferent to what was international. It is also besides the point. The libs are strong because of their international order, you're not going to displace them by becoming isolationist, and if you don't displace them they will band together internationally to displace the American right domestically.
Wow, just wow. You have no idea what Trump is trying to accomplish. He is dismantling "the libs'...international order" because it is designed to destroy the economic viability of sovereign nations.
Isolationist? You fool. Trump under America has forged dozens of bi-lateral trade agreements to liberate sovereign nations from the globalist rules based order that has hollowed out the manufacturing capability of not just America, but Canada, Australia, Europe and most of the emerging countries. Trump is inviting every nation to join America in establishing the Hamiltonian/American system of economics that first made America a great economic power.
Take twenty minutes out of your life and watch Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. He laid it all out in a simple and direct manner. America under Trump will no longer participate in a controlled demolition of our borders, culture, economy and sovereignty.
If countries don’t want to forge a reciprocal bi-lateral trade deal with the U.S., that’s their choice. It looks like the UK and EU people will be left out in the cold because their political leadership wants to preserve the status quo. The rest of the world wants something better.
Maybe you guys should focus on winning your midterms. It's your lax "we just want to grill" attitude that has put you in such a bad position, and almost every serious thinker on the right now acknowledges this. You could've tried an own about borders, or freedom of speech, but it's telling that your highest mode of existence is the family BBQ, presumably drunk.
Your response to your international allies airing their grievances is to somehow scold them for being insufficient? The shitlibs, for all their evil, don't welch on their obligations. It's one of the reasons they win. But no, "a swift kick in the ass", however that can be translated into actually policy, is somehow the remedy for defeating the Leviathan of the international order.
You mistake "Washington D.C. (hostile to the American Nation) & its' co-equal international apparatchiks (hostile to their own nations) said something once", for "things the American people should care about as helpful to itself or its' cousin nations."
That's before we get into NATO nations low military spending as a percent of GDP, inability to even muster a defense force against a land invasion of Europe (Germans railroad gauge being a big bottleneck here), & trying to the drag the US into the Ukraine war. And most your militaries wouldn't even muster out to get some during GWOT (special exception to the Danish Special Forces, who got handily themselves quite a bit).
So there's no reason for an actually American government, ruling on behalf of its' own nation, to stay particularly involved with the previously Washington, D.C.-based GAE/NWO/"International Rules-Based Order". It's a foreign a colonizer as any other group.
Trump using his rhetoric as a cattle prod is an attempt to spur the recreation of nations with which to enact a new international order. This current one has colonized the US as much as it has colonized every other member.
I'll admit Trump 'screwed up' your chances to have a slower-moving traitor in office. I'll also freely admit I'd feel worse if he'd accidentally scratched the paint of some Canuck's car.
Americans are very familiar with Carney's type through Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell -- basically every Republican prior to Trump, & every current longstanding member of the party.
Maybe Canada or any of the other Mini Me countries "need an international order of their own," but the United States most certainly does not. We *are* an international order of our own.
This is why people turned against America on the world stage in the first place. As long as you get yours, then your allies can go fuck themselves I guess…but thanks for the mask off moment
We don't have "allies." To be an ally, you have to be an equal. This is like when the Danes got all butthurt over Greenland and tried to play the "We fought alongside you in Afghanistan!" card. Like dude, you sent a hundred people. Get over yourselves.
The lesson here is Denmark, & most of Europe, are much closer to satrapies than independent nations.
As the US struggles to reject the GAE/NWO/"International Rules-Based Order" headquartered in Washington, D.C., the rest of the Western World should look at what it means to be the satrapy of dead empire.
This is just factually wrong. Canadians leaning right didn’t get nervous. The conservatives increased their share of the vote and seats in Parliament. What happened is that Trump’s belligerence united the left.
The Greens, far-left NDP and separatist Bloc Quebécois all lost support to the more mainstream left liberals. That is why the liberals one, not this ill-informed theory that the Canadian right got nervous and abandoned their party or principles.
Look, I grew up in Greece during the Cold War. In that country, the far left communists were represented by…17…different parties (I can list them but it would be a more painstaking and laborious task than listing medieval Christian heresies although I do have to mention that one of them was called the Marxist-Leninist Party of Greece while the other was the Leninist-Marxist Party of Greece) and the doctrinal fights they engaged in over Marxist Scripture were as violent and intense as they were arcane and scholastic. Guess what though? If there was even a one in a million shot that they could gain some real power in parliament in one of the 36 elections that were held every year, they coalesced and coordinated faster than a flock of geese heading south for the winter.
Not really sure what your point is? The far left in Canada wins seats, but have never held office and the prospect I suppose was always too remote to coalesce. The separatists are generally left, but of course have a different agenda. They certainly did abandon their parties to vote left-mainstream to express an anti-Trump sentiment.
Canadian rightists/nationalists basically need to convince the hoes to roll the dice on "not continuity, but resurrection", and yes persuading the local hoes does get much more difficult if Trump keeps on scaring the maple-coloured shit out of them.
Personally, I'd rather Alberta just separate and become the 51st state, but it was shocking the way Trump frightened Canadian Boomers into voting for whatever party seemed to be the most Anti-MAGA, which happened to be the same bums Canadian voters were on the verge of finally throwing out.
A bracing defence of American exceptionalism. As an Englishman it brings my icy reptilian blood all the way up to a gentle simmer so you're doing your work well. Some minor stylistic points if I may:
- I think you missed a 'sic' on 'react do strongly'
- The British rendering would be Punjab-on-Thames, not Punjab-on-the-Thames. And demographically it would be more like Sylhet-on-Thames; I believe the Punjabis are more concentrated on the St. Lawrence from the occasional mad Khalistan stories one hears.
"Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet."
The day I can distinguish between Punjabis and Sylhets is the day my President has failed me. To my sorrow and shame, I'm currently aware of what the Donbass is, and I have a vague understanding of where Zaporizhzhia is located.
Trump is a rejection of “The Establishment”. The “uniparty”. I hate the Democrats and despise the republicans. I want a rebirth. A fire of freedom. I want the American people represented and celebrated. If Trump hurts your feelings I couldn’t care less. Better wake up and figure out what time it is.
You’re very Roman indeed, and I haven’t come to whine, but to acknowledge – you made us your bitch and now alternate between slapping us around, taking what seems useful that we have lying around, reminding us that we’re not bringing in enough money, and upbraiding us for being so weak (by which you mean – not enough auxiliares. Where’s my auxiliares?!). Maybe occasionally starting a fight with the neighbours, then telling us that it’s our job to handle it because you have new fights to start, or take care of their now-orphaned children, whatever the situation demands.
It’s incredible strength, if often a bit heedless or even cruel for sport, and it demands respect. In fact the level of your national greatness demands outright awe. That’s what I always find interesting: Individually, Americans are the most Christian nation the West has left; collectively America is totally, heedlessly pagan, a vision of manifest destiny and worldly naked power without need or use for justification that would have seemed a bit unseemly and hubristic to Alexander.
Actually we fluctuate on this score. Real politick then pure idealism. Kill all the Indians then “make the world safe for democracy/human rights”. Jefferson: freedom and Democracy for everyone. Adams: we are a unique people/culture/situation freedom and democracy just for us.
You’ll note that it was “kill all the Indians” et al when it was the Indians in your way (or Banana Coup all the Latinos, or Waterboard all the Filipinos), but then it morphed into “democracy/human rights” when your own core interests were secured & consideration fell on the natives / subaltern of the European empires.
I once again don’t mean that as a cringing complaint, even though I can’t hide a bit of resentment – everyone’s a hypocrite, America’s just both the most extreme, and most competent, at it – like for many things.
The degree to which American foreign policy & tone vacillates is the degree to which the American elite class is replaced/changed over. "America" ran the "democracy/human rights" BS after FDR & his gang of communists, leftists & Jews permanently changed the government to administrative state in the 1930's; while WASPs handed the reigns of the political right over to a coalition of Roman Catholics & Jews.
Also, your view of settler/Indian conflict & counter-insurgency in the Philippines is that of Leftist children's author.
The New Deal was precisely the heir of the extremely activist, at home and abroad, progressive movement, and those were exactly the leftists who were the biggest fans of sweeping away the dark reactionary force of Spain from the New World. And yeah the New Deal did have support from Jews and Catholics (and Southerners), but once the regime was safely ensconced in Washington, what every one of those groups got for their support, whether in northern urban neighbourhoods or in southern school districts, was racial integration to the face. LOL, WASP'd.
The people who ensured that China would fall to Mao were also neither Jews nor Catholics but good Old China Hands, WASPs. And so were the most influential American commies in general. Who do you think Alger Hiss or Harry Hopkins were? Shtetlbillies? Jesuits?
And even before that –
The Spanish-American War and its sequelae were in good part justified as a progressive op to teach those benighted savages to elect good men.
Re: the Indians: Of course they were bloodthirsty savages. But so were the European colonial subjects, so that’s not what explains the difference in perspective. Of course there were very important new discoveries in the totally real field of human rights. They just coincidentally 1:1 matched US material interests!
Never go full JBS. I would never rule out that there actually were UN troops staged in the bayous of Louisiana though.
You have a lot of frame errors going on in this. I'm going to start from the oldest topic with Amerindians (no, there's not a better term for them; Whites are properly Native Americans).
Americans have been in conflict with in Amerindians since before the Declaration of Independance. Indians did not have the definite territory claims, or the structural discipline/control to prevent groups from constantly performing low-level raids; neither did the American settlers have the overhead for government structures. Whenever negotiations could occur, the lack of proper territorial control & constant tendecy of tribes to splinter made anything more complex than "liquor to leave us alone for a year" fruitless. From the Alleghenies & Appalachians to the Pacific Ocean, conflict with Amerindians has always included a constant undercurrent of zero-sum raids on women & children, with the Amerindians raping, torturing & abusing captives. The fact there are any Amerindians left testifies to Americans' liberal attitudes towards natives. Much less the fact they are still tolerated to manage themselves with an alternate legal system, despite having produced nothing but casinos & drunks for over a century.
And we did it without misegenating an entire continent into a racial dumpster fire, unlike the "dark reactionary force" of Spain.
So as America's historic attitude towards Amerindians are largely congruent with their attitudes towards other primitives/'colonial subjects', when said primitives aren't scalping Whites or each other, your claims surrounding the Spanish-American War & Philippine policing fall flat. (This excludes the similarities between the Spanish-American & Mexican-American wars, where the US acquires territory from a nearby failing empire by military force & graciously pays the loser.) If you're referencing America's more recent attitudes, such as our abandonment of Rhodesia & South Africa under the odious Jimmy Carter, then FDR et al. marks a meaningful inflection point in American politics & the changeover of our elite class. You can't have it both ways.
Once again, "the eternal Anglo" & all its' variations prove to be an intellectually incoherent political shiboleth for non-Whites. If you're actually a Spaniard/Portugese/other Euro, you should be mortified to repeat it. Never go even a little brown.
---Misc. Side Points (wherein you have also have it backwards)---
1) Elite changeover implies either the violent dispossesion of existing elites, as in the Norman Conquest of England, or internal collaborators &/or dissidents facilitating the exchange. Alger Hiss & Harry Hopkins, & other WASPs like Woodrow Wilson & FDR, are examples of the latter. You lack this critically important category. And if you're a Spaniard or Portugese, you don't have to look far to find current-day examples.
2) Much like 'Scots-Irish' is used mean 'descended from old settler [aforementioned] stock" than a particularly measurable ethnic deliniation, "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" refers to old-stock Northeastern blue-bloods as oppossed to what it might seem to mean prima facie. Harry Hopkins & Agler Hiss, originally "Hesse", are at best half-WASP; Hopkins was born working class in Iowa, Alger "Hesse" was German not English, as implied by the 'Anglo-Saxon'. Not coincidentally, 'sidelined/partial/marginal' in-group member is a common profile for defectors.
3) Returning to Alger "Hesse", after the universally failed revolutions of 1848 many of the losers emigrated to America, especially from Germany. Once here, the '48-er's set up shop publishing the most inflammatory & radical abolishnist publications, hand-in-hand with our own homegrowns libtards. See Librarian's own article "Antebellum Active Clubbing" for a quick breakdown of this spurred the breakup of the Union & lead to the Civil War.
4) Ellis Island was a disaster. The shtetlbillies, wops, & potato-diggers fueled a wave of ethnic conflict, organized crime, political machines, & radical leftist violence; the first 2 problems required a pair of World Wars & the RICO to start ironing out. However, despite the Great Migration from the 1930's-50's, they weren't integrated until the Civil Rights era. The sons of the shtetlbillies summoned Jewish lightning (esp. in the Bronx) & made out like bandits with insurance money, no doubt from some White- or WASP-owned company.
5) FDR was universally terrible during WWII, see Stalin's War for how he screwed the British & gave the Soviets everything on a silver plate. Its' no surprise he was stupid about China too; the stupid idea the Chinese were a open market for American products is why he got us bombed by Japan in the first place (see Introduction of John Costello's The Pacific War: 1941-1945).
6) Not sure what you're referencing with UN troops in the Louisiana Bayous, but I'm sure if there were then some Cajuns got a few blue helmets as trophies. Neat touch on top of the 12-point deer hanging in the den.
Misc. Points TL;DR: Almost all internal American conflicts are fueled by racial, then religious-social differences; of which you apparently know less than nothing.
Looking forward to the John Mikl Thor v. Big Top Carney cage match! There can only be one...
Well what do you expect, one nation stands for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and the other "peace, order and good government" eh? My paternal great-grandparents emigrated from Switzerland to Quebec in the mid-1800's. As a result, I have lots of family, maintain deep roots and spend a fair amount of time each year in Gay North Dakota. The friends I've grown up with--we can bust each other's balls over politics, enjoy a fin du monde then go canoeing and light the sauna later. But my dad's generation, they're hopeless. It took me a long time to realize that generally speaking, they obsess over, and hate the USA in the most passive-aggressive way only a Canadian can. As I told a couple of them this summer, when they truly believed there was a chance Trump was going to send in the actual military (not kidding) to take over Canada, at least they can warm their hands around the fires of Trump hatred. So healthy and unifying! On a positive note, all Canadians can be proud to have produced the world's greatest drummer, Neil Peart, RIP.
We're not "more mad at Trump" than we are our local elites. We're well aware they've made us the plaything of China and India. That they've pozzed our nation into a trooned-out lolcow that the global powers treat with contempt. And Canada as it is deserves contempt. There's nothing to respect in its current incarnation.
But my whole point, that I fear you missed in your article is we need breathing room. If you say Trump is trying to galvanize us to do better, fine I'll believe you. Because I'm not an expert on the guy. But it's backfiring if that is the intent. We're making inroads with our normies. Anti-India sentiment is rising by the day, we're gradually normalizing discussion on Remigration and we've pushed our true flag back into the national discourse. But MAGA, if they are interested in foreign nationalists gaining control of their nations, needs to back off the rhetoric for now and let us work.
The last time Trump mentioned annexing Canada was September of last year. Hopefully, you’ve used the time since wisely. You don’t want him to have to come back…
We have. I wish you could see it. But understandably you're not expected to keep track of Canada's internal goings-on. Just keep in mind you are an influential writer on the American Right. People listen when you speak. I'm not asking you take the cause of Canadian advocacy. You must put America first in your forethought, as it should be. But I do ask you take care when you write about others, whether it's Canada or Europe. I don't think you quite understand us. Perhaps you never will. But if ever Canada does enter your thoughts or your posts, just continue to try and understand us better when you do write on us.
Understanding might not bring agreement. You may in the end still think we're retarded. But at least you will write from a place of genuine and informed disagreement. As opposed to misunderstanding how we have been, are and must always be.
Fellow Canadian: Librarian has a point. In some ways he may understand the Canadian psyche better than you seem to. I don't think his point is that we're retarded or even descendants of cowards. But I do think he is saying that if we are ever going to be great, we are going to have to muster a positive vision for our country beyond being a coat-tail-riding sub-nation. Hope I am not putting words in his mouth.
America forged its nationhood with violence and raw energy. Until Canadians (or Albertans) do the same, we'll be ever in the shadow, both morally and otherwise, of greater nations.
Hum neighbor to my southeast, I've been watching you work since '64 when I drove through you to get here. I liked you folks and much of the way you ran things back then. I used to like to visit, go over to Whitehorse or wherever even if I wasn't heading outside.
Today how you guys do things, run things is your business, blaming President Trump or MAGA for the hole you're digging yourselves in, not productive but if it makes you feel better, a bit sad but OK.
Meanwhile I'll float or fly on by if I'm going anywhere.
I have to ask how well "playing the hero" to America's "heel-turn" might work for the Right in Canada, as well. Point the finger at the ruling class & say, "they're the enemy too! They're why we're not sovereign; they screwed us & they're screwing with America too!"
Because if Canada isn't going to save itseslf, geopolitics & charity demand America turn it into a semi-autonomous territory. If Ottawa won't secure the Northern reaches against Moscow's nukes & Beijing's Northwest passage, we're going to have to. Also, stop letting the Chinese make fentanyl & smuggle it in.
It aptly describes a culture and mindset of Canadians living roughly east of old Fort Gary. Which differs from those living west of it, up to the Great Divide. The people's of the Great Plains and Boreal Forest was settled by Slavic, Scandinavian, and Germanic immigrants of the 'peasant' and 'kulak' classes. Industrious, hard-working, unrelenting, and salt-of-the-earth kinds of people.
Sure, we didn't fight in wars of empire (though many answered the call in Europe's wars in the last century or went to internment camps just for having a name from there). Mostly, we fought for survival against the land, rivers, wildlife, and climate. It would be a mistake to assume we're less hardy after fighting that untamable adversary.
Personally, Trump's impact on right politics and the butthurt over it is laughable. He's a bombastic shit-disturber, it's good he's shaking up the centrist established order and pushing those on the left to lose their fucking minds. Means we can tell the serious and sincere individuals are from those who aren't regardless of which side they're on.
When I was a young man, with the needs a young man has, I was informed by a young lady of Canadian persuasion that Alberta is the Texas of Canada.
There are certainly intriguing parallels- frontier spirit, a petroleum industry, a cattle industry, and a preference for that old time religion. Sadly, the aforementioned young lady meant it as a sick burn, not a ringing endorsement. My clever riposte that "Everything's bigger in Alberta" didn't quite have the effect I had hoped it would. Maybe a little more of that Sigma grindset would have had me in good stead. Or perhaps a neg along the lines of "Ontario is the Punjab-on-the-Laurence." We grow old so soon, and wise so late.
Very good essay. It is only a "tactical loss" for us because globalists are re-branding themselves as nationalist. If MAGA fails to re-structure the " empire" aka NATO on a more sustainable de-centralized frame, the empire might need to be dismantled to save the nations from erasure. In the long term, Trump re-igniting national consciousness amongst the masses is in my opinion a good thing. Bottom line, defence spending is being increased to levels impossible to imagine before Trump’s bravado and Canada’s population decreased last year because immigration stopped. Policy is more important than headlines and Larping as reactionaries on social media.
"Bottom line, defence spending is being increased to levels impossible to imagine before Trump’s bravado and Canada’s population decreased last year because immigration stopped."
And you think that's to anyone's benefit but the defense contractors? You and Librarian and the rest of MAGA are just proving you learned nothing from the Bush administration. You swallow the same bullshit as long as it has a MAGA veneer.
I understand your sentiment. Nobody is saying this is perfect. What we are saying is that it is better than the alternatives at the current time in the realm of what is possible. If you can achieve better, I’ll gladly support you. Good luck de-funding the military. I’m sure you will help many patriots support their families working in whatever it is you have in mind.
Yes and No. Defense spending is good if it is coupled with a re-industrialization policy of the West. The fact that NATO is outproduced by Russia is a pathetic joke. Same during COVID when we were at the mercy of Chinese import for basic necessities. However, you’re correct to point out that the private economic interests need to be subordinated to larger political realities. Destroying the defense industry won’t achieve anything but it needs to be local and decentralized. Not under the control of international banking cartels or globalist technocrats who offshore production and import 3rd world labor according to global capitalist calculations.
MAGA mourns and despises what has happened to Britain, to Canada. So does Trump. Save yourself if you can. We are still far from saved and we know it, so considerations of niceness we can ill afford should have no part of any equation. Greenland is a strategic necessity for America who is the largest target in the world. Why shouldn’t we annex what extends our safety? Mind your own business—there is no international order that is not a poor disguise for tyranny.
It’s like the divorce culture of the 1970’s. Mom and Dad split up, older son goes with Dad, younger son goes with mom. Dad still does “dad” things, work long hours, hangs with buddies, sports, etc. Mom is unleashed to find herself and explores, expanding herself to a whole new way of doing everything. Older brother stays essentially the same as Dad, younger brother expands along with mom, learning new ways to tackle old ideas. When the brothers infrequently do come together, they resort to commonalities; sports per se. Older brother thinks the game is his, a conservative approach. younger brother plays an entirely new way, expansive and looking towards a future. This is Canada and the US. Really, it comes down to older brother being butt-hurt over the Stanley Cup residing with the younger brother for a long time.
Canada is a nation defined by opposition to another nation. It's sad. The inferiority complex is baked in. I remember growing up, whenever The Simpsons or Family Guy mentioned Canada, the entire country would get excited just to be briefly noticed.
Maybe the chancellor or whoever they have will give me a medal for writing this.
Whatever it is, I am sure the person wears a ceremonial fez.
Our next aquatic renaming needs to be Lake Ontario. Since the Great Lakes have Lake Superior, the smaller lake should be Lake Inferior. Then we can start referring to its largest urban area, Toronto, as “the Inferiority Complex.”
To say that MAGAS is "actively hostile" to nationalists in other lands reclaiming their homes is completely wrong, of course. American nationalists would love to see nationalists of other countries rise up and take care of their own business. Let a million flowers bloom or whatever. We just don't think we have any obligation to moderate our own efforts to avoid upsetting theirs. Especially if that means we have to act like the milquetoast conservatives of the previous several decades who loved to lose respectably.
If Canadians who would otherwise lean right are so triggered by American bravado and occasional rudeness that they'll vote against their own interests in order to scold us, that's very sad for them, but...not our problem.
Canada is the first non-national nation, a post national experiment. Trump admittedly hurt her feelings so she goes to mother China. Not the kind mother others would choose, perhaps. Yes, a tipping point is being reached and chosen. But by whom?
Abortion rights, LGBTQ issues, immigration, and medical transitions for minors are defining tests of loyalty as progressive groups exercise growing leverage over primary elections. Now they supply ready-made legislation increasingly drawn from the Democratic Socialists of America platform which forms AOC. Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson come from the progressive nonprofit funnel. Give these people the match and they will burn your house down.
Isn’t the US the first post national state?! Certainly the most successful one and first to be independent.
Haven't you heard? America is exceptional. Unlike all of Europe and Asia Minor, she had good fortune in her geography. July 4th is proudly and loudly celebrated each year. As to whether the American Imperium was good, bad, or worse than others past I leave to history.
You do have such an obligation, because to challenge the existing international order you need an international order of your own. It is your problem, it strange you don't see it, but I put that down to American parorchialism. Trump borrowed energy from the international right to achieve victory. Yes, he owes his allies at least something.
I guess I'd need to see the receipts on that. I remember him winning in 2016 because Dirt People in several Midwest states that the Clinton campaign took for granted turned out to support him in bigger numbers than the pollsters would admit they would. In 2024 he won because Musk bought Twitter and cluttered up the left's main organizational channel, and because Biden and Harris had been so awful that some billionaires, especially some of the techbros, realized there might be no energy to power their devices if the Democrats trashed things for another four years, and attempts to Fortify the election like 2020 fizzled without their help.
I think you underestimate the indifference of Americans to international opinion in general, let alone the international right. We didn't/don't feel energy coming from outside. If that makes us parochial, I guess we're parochial.
I don't *want* to replace one international order (a euphemism for empire) with another. That sounds like two wrongs making a right. By that logic, we're obligated to keep running a global empire forever.
The indifference of Americans in general IS a problem. One of the reasons why foreign networks formed around the political left, or the liberal order, is because they were not indifferent to what was international. It is also besides the point. The libs are strong because of their international order, you're not going to displace them by becoming isolationist, and if you don't displace them they will band together internationally to displace the American right domestically.
Wow, just wow. You have no idea what Trump is trying to accomplish. He is dismantling "the libs'...international order" because it is designed to destroy the economic viability of sovereign nations.
Isolationist? You fool. Trump under America has forged dozens of bi-lateral trade agreements to liberate sovereign nations from the globalist rules based order that has hollowed out the manufacturing capability of not just America, but Canada, Australia, Europe and most of the emerging countries. Trump is inviting every nation to join America in establishing the Hamiltonian/American system of economics that first made America a great economic power.
Take twenty minutes out of your life and watch Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. He laid it all out in a simple and direct manner. America under Trump will no longer participate in a controlled demolition of our borders, culture, economy and sovereignty.
And everyone else is just on their own? America first means America only I guess.
It's like instead of reading the comment, you made one up in your head and replied to that one.
If countries don’t want to forge a reciprocal bi-lateral trade deal with the U.S., that’s their choice. It looks like the UK and EU people will be left out in the cold because their political leadership wants to preserve the status quo. The rest of the world wants something better.
You only need an international order if you care about having an international order.
America First, baby. Shove your international order.
And you wonder why you lose
I’ll remember that when I’m celebrating my country’s 250th birthday, chomping burgers and chugging beer.
Maybe you guys should focus on winning your midterms. It's your lax "we just want to grill" attitude that has put you in such a bad position, and almost every serious thinker on the right now acknowledges this. You could've tried an own about borders, or freedom of speech, but it's telling that your highest mode of existence is the family BBQ, presumably drunk.
I’m more interested in 2030. Can you guess why? Or would you prefer raging like a moron?
I think the repeated swift kick in the ass is useful.
Your response to your international allies airing their grievances is to somehow scold them for being insufficient? The shitlibs, for all their evil, don't welch on their obligations. It's one of the reasons they win. But no, "a swift kick in the ass", however that can be translated into actually policy, is somehow the remedy for defeating the Leviathan of the international order.
Have you tired not being bitches? That might help.
You mistake "Washington D.C. (hostile to the American Nation) & its' co-equal international apparatchiks (hostile to their own nations) said something once", for "things the American people should care about as helpful to itself or its' cousin nations."
That's before we get into NATO nations low military spending as a percent of GDP, inability to even muster a defense force against a land invasion of Europe (Germans railroad gauge being a big bottleneck here), & trying to the drag the US into the Ukraine war. And most your militaries wouldn't even muster out to get some during GWOT (special exception to the Danish Special Forces, who got handily themselves quite a bit).
So there's no reason for an actually American government, ruling on behalf of its' own nation, to stay particularly involved with the previously Washington, D.C.-based GAE/NWO/"International Rules-Based Order". It's a foreign a colonizer as any other group.
Your Sec of state literally just did a speech about how we are cousin nations
Yes, I accepted that as true in my comment. NATO et al. are still foreign to every part of their member states.
Trump using his rhetoric as a cattle prod is an attempt to spur the recreation of nations with which to enact a new international order. This current one has colonized the US as much as it has colonized every other member.
I don't understand how 51st state rhetoric electrified anything except the opposition, thrusting them into power
He started the conversations, which have continued moving long after the news cycle changed. Geopolitics is played out over decades.
Can't you guys admit trump screwed up? All he had to do was wait 8 months until after the election to have the conversation
I'll admit Trump 'screwed up' your chances to have a slower-moving traitor in office. I'll also freely admit I'd feel worse if he'd accidentally scratched the paint of some Canuck's car.
Americans are very familiar with Carney's type through Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell -- basically every Republican prior to Trump, & every current longstanding member of the party.
Maybe Canada or any of the other Mini Me countries "need an international order of their own," but the United States most certainly does not. We *are* an international order of our own.
This is why people turned against America on the world stage in the first place. As long as you get yours, then your allies can go fuck themselves I guess…but thanks for the mask off moment
We don't have "allies." To be an ally, you have to be an equal. This is like when the Danes got all butthurt over Greenland and tried to play the "We fought alongside you in Afghanistan!" card. Like dude, you sent a hundred people. Get over yourselves.
Weird that you asked them to send anyone then. So much for coalition of the willing. More like coalition of the conned. Well, lesson learned.
The lesson here is Denmark, & most of Europe, are much closer to satrapies than independent nations.
As the US struggles to reject the GAE/NWO/"International Rules-Based Order" headquartered in Washington, D.C., the rest of the Western World should look at what it means to be the satrapy of dead empire.
This is just factually wrong. Canadians leaning right didn’t get nervous. The conservatives increased their share of the vote and seats in Parliament. What happened is that Trump’s belligerence united the left.
There was a disunited Left in any corner of the planet? That in itself is news to me.
The Greens, far-left NDP and separatist Bloc Quebécois all lost support to the more mainstream left liberals. That is why the liberals one, not this ill-informed theory that the Canadian right got nervous and abandoned their party or principles.
Look, I grew up in Greece during the Cold War. In that country, the far left communists were represented by…17…different parties (I can list them but it would be a more painstaking and laborious task than listing medieval Christian heresies although I do have to mention that one of them was called the Marxist-Leninist Party of Greece while the other was the Leninist-Marxist Party of Greece) and the doctrinal fights they engaged in over Marxist Scripture were as violent and intense as they were arcane and scholastic. Guess what though? If there was even a one in a million shot that they could gain some real power in parliament in one of the 36 elections that were held every year, they coalesced and coordinated faster than a flock of geese heading south for the winter.
Not really sure what your point is? The far left in Canada wins seats, but have never held office and the prospect I suppose was always too remote to coalesce. The separatists are generally left, but of course have a different agenda. They certainly did abandon their parties to vote left-mainstream to express an anti-Trump sentiment.
Canadian rightists/nationalists basically need to convince the hoes to roll the dice on "not continuity, but resurrection", and yes persuading the local hoes does get much more difficult if Trump keeps on scaring the maple-coloured shit out of them.
Personally, I'd rather Alberta just separate and become the 51st state, but it was shocking the way Trump frightened Canadian Boomers into voting for whatever party seemed to be the most Anti-MAGA, which happened to be the same bums Canadian voters were on the verge of finally throwing out.
Frankly, I think the American Right needs to prep its' own odds for non-political solutions, & then help prep the Right in other countries.
A bracing defence of American exceptionalism. As an Englishman it brings my icy reptilian blood all the way up to a gentle simmer so you're doing your work well. Some minor stylistic points if I may:
- I think you missed a 'sic' on 'react do strongly'
- The British rendering would be Punjab-on-Thames, not Punjab-on-the-Thames. And demographically it would be more like Sylhet-on-Thames; I believe the Punjabis are more concentrated on the St. Lawrence from the occasional mad Khalistan stories one hears.
Beautiful “British” response!!🤣🤣🤣
"Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet."
The day I can distinguish between Punjabis and Sylhets is the day my President has failed me. To my sorrow and shame, I'm currently aware of what the Donbass is, and I have a vague understanding of where Zaporizhzhia is located.
10/10 Ethnography, well done. Americans got over it with our own longstanding indigent minority populations.
I’m glad someone else understands that The Patriot is a documentary.
Trump is a rejection of “The Establishment”. The “uniparty”. I hate the Democrats and despise the republicans. I want a rebirth. A fire of freedom. I want the American people represented and celebrated. If Trump hurts your feelings I couldn’t care less. Better wake up and figure out what time it is.
You’re very Roman indeed, and I haven’t come to whine, but to acknowledge – you made us your bitch and now alternate between slapping us around, taking what seems useful that we have lying around, reminding us that we’re not bringing in enough money, and upbraiding us for being so weak (by which you mean – not enough auxiliares. Where’s my auxiliares?!). Maybe occasionally starting a fight with the neighbours, then telling us that it’s our job to handle it because you have new fights to start, or take care of their now-orphaned children, whatever the situation demands.
It’s incredible strength, if often a bit heedless or even cruel for sport, and it demands respect. In fact the level of your national greatness demands outright awe. That’s what I always find interesting: Individually, Americans are the most Christian nation the West has left; collectively America is totally, heedlessly pagan, a vision of manifest destiny and worldly naked power without need or use for justification that would have seemed a bit unseemly and hubristic to Alexander.
Actually we fluctuate on this score. Real politick then pure idealism. Kill all the Indians then “make the world safe for democracy/human rights”. Jefferson: freedom and Democracy for everyone. Adams: we are a unique people/culture/situation freedom and democracy just for us.
You’ll note that it was “kill all the Indians” et al when it was the Indians in your way (or Banana Coup all the Latinos, or Waterboard all the Filipinos), but then it morphed into “democracy/human rights” when your own core interests were secured & consideration fell on the natives / subaltern of the European empires.
I once again don’t mean that as a cringing complaint, even though I can’t hide a bit of resentment – everyone’s a hypocrite, America’s just both the most extreme, and most competent, at it – like for many things.
The degree to which American foreign policy & tone vacillates is the degree to which the American elite class is replaced/changed over. "America" ran the "democracy/human rights" BS after FDR & his gang of communists, leftists & Jews permanently changed the government to administrative state in the 1930's; while WASPs handed the reigns of the political right over to a coalition of Roman Catholics & Jews.
Also, your view of settler/Indian conflict & counter-insurgency in the Philippines is that of Leftist children's author.
The New Deal was precisely the heir of the extremely activist, at home and abroad, progressive movement, and those were exactly the leftists who were the biggest fans of sweeping away the dark reactionary force of Spain from the New World. And yeah the New Deal did have support from Jews and Catholics (and Southerners), but once the regime was safely ensconced in Washington, what every one of those groups got for their support, whether in northern urban neighbourhoods or in southern school districts, was racial integration to the face. LOL, WASP'd.
The people who ensured that China would fall to Mao were also neither Jews nor Catholics but good Old China Hands, WASPs. And so were the most influential American commies in general. Who do you think Alger Hiss or Harry Hopkins were? Shtetlbillies? Jesuits?
And even before that –
The Spanish-American War and its sequelae were in good part justified as a progressive op to teach those benighted savages to elect good men.
Re: the Indians: Of course they were bloodthirsty savages. But so were the European colonial subjects, so that’s not what explains the difference in perspective. Of course there were very important new discoveries in the totally real field of human rights. They just coincidentally 1:1 matched US material interests!
Never go full JBS. I would never rule out that there actually were UN troops staged in the bayous of Louisiana though.
You have a lot of frame errors going on in this. I'm going to start from the oldest topic with Amerindians (no, there's not a better term for them; Whites are properly Native Americans).
Americans have been in conflict with in Amerindians since before the Declaration of Independance. Indians did not have the definite territory claims, or the structural discipline/control to prevent groups from constantly performing low-level raids; neither did the American settlers have the overhead for government structures. Whenever negotiations could occur, the lack of proper territorial control & constant tendecy of tribes to splinter made anything more complex than "liquor to leave us alone for a year" fruitless. From the Alleghenies & Appalachians to the Pacific Ocean, conflict with Amerindians has always included a constant undercurrent of zero-sum raids on women & children, with the Amerindians raping, torturing & abusing captives. The fact there are any Amerindians left testifies to Americans' liberal attitudes towards natives. Much less the fact they are still tolerated to manage themselves with an alternate legal system, despite having produced nothing but casinos & drunks for over a century.
And we did it without misegenating an entire continent into a racial dumpster fire, unlike the "dark reactionary force" of Spain.
So as America's historic attitude towards Amerindians are largely congruent with their attitudes towards other primitives/'colonial subjects', when said primitives aren't scalping Whites or each other, your claims surrounding the Spanish-American War & Philippine policing fall flat. (This excludes the similarities between the Spanish-American & Mexican-American wars, where the US acquires territory from a nearby failing empire by military force & graciously pays the loser.) If you're referencing America's more recent attitudes, such as our abandonment of Rhodesia & South Africa under the odious Jimmy Carter, then FDR et al. marks a meaningful inflection point in American politics & the changeover of our elite class. You can't have it both ways.
Once again, "the eternal Anglo" & all its' variations prove to be an intellectually incoherent political shiboleth for non-Whites. If you're actually a Spaniard/Portugese/other Euro, you should be mortified to repeat it. Never go even a little brown.
---Misc. Side Points (wherein you have also have it backwards)---
1) Elite changeover implies either the violent dispossesion of existing elites, as in the Norman Conquest of England, or internal collaborators &/or dissidents facilitating the exchange. Alger Hiss & Harry Hopkins, & other WASPs like Woodrow Wilson & FDR, are examples of the latter. You lack this critically important category. And if you're a Spaniard or Portugese, you don't have to look far to find current-day examples.
2) Much like 'Scots-Irish' is used mean 'descended from old settler [aforementioned] stock" than a particularly measurable ethnic deliniation, "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" refers to old-stock Northeastern blue-bloods as oppossed to what it might seem to mean prima facie. Harry Hopkins & Agler Hiss, originally "Hesse", are at best half-WASP; Hopkins was born working class in Iowa, Alger "Hesse" was German not English, as implied by the 'Anglo-Saxon'. Not coincidentally, 'sidelined/partial/marginal' in-group member is a common profile for defectors.
3) Returning to Alger "Hesse", after the universally failed revolutions of 1848 many of the losers emigrated to America, especially from Germany. Once here, the '48-er's set up shop publishing the most inflammatory & radical abolishnist publications, hand-in-hand with our own homegrowns libtards. See Librarian's own article "Antebellum Active Clubbing" for a quick breakdown of this spurred the breakup of the Union & lead to the Civil War.
4) Ellis Island was a disaster. The shtetlbillies, wops, & potato-diggers fueled a wave of ethnic conflict, organized crime, political machines, & radical leftist violence; the first 2 problems required a pair of World Wars & the RICO to start ironing out. However, despite the Great Migration from the 1930's-50's, they weren't integrated until the Civil Rights era. The sons of the shtetlbillies summoned Jewish lightning (esp. in the Bronx) & made out like bandits with insurance money, no doubt from some White- or WASP-owned company.
5) FDR was universally terrible during WWII, see Stalin's War for how he screwed the British & gave the Soviets everything on a silver plate. Its' no surprise he was stupid about China too; the stupid idea the Chinese were a open market for American products is why he got us bombed by Japan in the first place (see Introduction of John Costello's The Pacific War: 1941-1945).
6) Not sure what you're referencing with UN troops in the Louisiana Bayous, but I'm sure if there were then some Cajuns got a few blue helmets as trophies. Neat touch on top of the 12-point deer hanging in the den.
Misc. Points TL;DR: Almost all internal American conflicts are fueled by racial, then religious-social differences; of which you apparently know less than nothing.
Looking forward to the John Mikl Thor v. Big Top Carney cage match! There can only be one...
Well what do you expect, one nation stands for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and the other "peace, order and good government" eh? My paternal great-grandparents emigrated from Switzerland to Quebec in the mid-1800's. As a result, I have lots of family, maintain deep roots and spend a fair amount of time each year in Gay North Dakota. The friends I've grown up with--we can bust each other's balls over politics, enjoy a fin du monde then go canoeing and light the sauna later. But my dad's generation, they're hopeless. It took me a long time to realize that generally speaking, they obsess over, and hate the USA in the most passive-aggressive way only a Canadian can. As I told a couple of them this summer, when they truly believed there was a chance Trump was going to send in the actual military (not kidding) to take over Canada, at least they can warm their hands around the fires of Trump hatred. So healthy and unifying! On a positive note, all Canadians can be proud to have produced the world's greatest drummer, Neil Peart, RIP.
We're not "more mad at Trump" than we are our local elites. We're well aware they've made us the plaything of China and India. That they've pozzed our nation into a trooned-out lolcow that the global powers treat with contempt. And Canada as it is deserves contempt. There's nothing to respect in its current incarnation.
But my whole point, that I fear you missed in your article is we need breathing room. If you say Trump is trying to galvanize us to do better, fine I'll believe you. Because I'm not an expert on the guy. But it's backfiring if that is the intent. We're making inroads with our normies. Anti-India sentiment is rising by the day, we're gradually normalizing discussion on Remigration and we've pushed our true flag back into the national discourse. But MAGA, if they are interested in foreign nationalists gaining control of their nations, needs to back off the rhetoric for now and let us work.
The last time Trump mentioned annexing Canada was September of last year. Hopefully, you’ve used the time since wisely. You don’t want him to have to come back…
We have. I wish you could see it. But understandably you're not expected to keep track of Canada's internal goings-on. Just keep in mind you are an influential writer on the American Right. People listen when you speak. I'm not asking you take the cause of Canadian advocacy. You must put America first in your forethought, as it should be. But I do ask you take care when you write about others, whether it's Canada or Europe. I don't think you quite understand us. Perhaps you never will. But if ever Canada does enter your thoughts or your posts, just continue to try and understand us better when you do write on us.
Understanding might not bring agreement. You may in the end still think we're retarded. But at least you will write from a place of genuine and informed disagreement. As opposed to misunderstanding how we have been, are and must always be.
Hockey player here. Love Canada. Don’t want China/India exploiting or controlling our nearest neighbor. Will not let that happen.
Fellow Canadian: Librarian has a point. In some ways he may understand the Canadian psyche better than you seem to. I don't think his point is that we're retarded or even descendants of cowards. But I do think he is saying that if we are ever going to be great, we are going to have to muster a positive vision for our country beyond being a coat-tail-riding sub-nation. Hope I am not putting words in his mouth.
America forged its nationhood with violence and raw energy. Until Canadians (or Albertans) do the same, we'll be ever in the shadow, both morally and otherwise, of greater nations.
You’re confusing contempt for respect. I don’t think he’s trying to get to know you.
Hum neighbor to my southeast, I've been watching you work since '64 when I drove through you to get here. I liked you folks and much of the way you ran things back then. I used to like to visit, go over to Whitehorse or wherever even if I wasn't heading outside.
Today how you guys do things, run things is your business, blaming President Trump or MAGA for the hole you're digging yourselves in, not productive but if it makes you feel better, a bit sad but OK.
Meanwhile I'll float or fly on by if I'm going anywhere.
Read my posts again. We're not blaming Trump for our problems.
I have to ask how well "playing the hero" to America's "heel-turn" might work for the Right in Canada, as well. Point the finger at the ruling class & say, "they're the enemy too! They're why we're not sovereign; they screwed us & they're screwing with America too!"
Because if Canada isn't going to save itseslf, geopolitics & charity demand America turn it into a semi-autonomous territory. If Ottawa won't secure the Northern reaches against Moscow's nukes & Beijing's Northwest passage, we're going to have to. Also, stop letting the Chinese make fentanyl & smuggle it in.
Let's boycott Lego instead.
Great essay and I took some learnings from it.
It aptly describes a culture and mindset of Canadians living roughly east of old Fort Gary. Which differs from those living west of it, up to the Great Divide. The people's of the Great Plains and Boreal Forest was settled by Slavic, Scandinavian, and Germanic immigrants of the 'peasant' and 'kulak' classes. Industrious, hard-working, unrelenting, and salt-of-the-earth kinds of people.
Sure, we didn't fight in wars of empire (though many answered the call in Europe's wars in the last century or went to internment camps just for having a name from there). Mostly, we fought for survival against the land, rivers, wildlife, and climate. It would be a mistake to assume we're less hardy after fighting that untamable adversary.
Personally, Trump's impact on right politics and the butthurt over it is laughable. He's a bombastic shit-disturber, it's good he's shaking up the centrist established order and pushing those on the left to lose their fucking minds. Means we can tell the serious and sincere individuals are from those who aren't regardless of which side they're on.
"There is no Canadian equivalent of Texas..."
When I was a young man, with the needs a young man has, I was informed by a young lady of Canadian persuasion that Alberta is the Texas of Canada.
There are certainly intriguing parallels- frontier spirit, a petroleum industry, a cattle industry, and a preference for that old time religion. Sadly, the aforementioned young lady meant it as a sick burn, not a ringing endorsement. My clever riposte that "Everything's bigger in Alberta" didn't quite have the effect I had hoped it would. Maybe a little more of that Sigma grindset would have had me in good stead. Or perhaps a neg along the lines of "Ontario is the Punjab-on-the-Laurence." We grow old so soon, and wise so late.
Very good essay. It is only a "tactical loss" for us because globalists are re-branding themselves as nationalist. If MAGA fails to re-structure the " empire" aka NATO on a more sustainable de-centralized frame, the empire might need to be dismantled to save the nations from erasure. In the long term, Trump re-igniting national consciousness amongst the masses is in my opinion a good thing. Bottom line, defence spending is being increased to levels impossible to imagine before Trump’s bravado and Canada’s population decreased last year because immigration stopped. Policy is more important than headlines and Larping as reactionaries on social media.
"Bottom line, defence spending is being increased to levels impossible to imagine before Trump’s bravado and Canada’s population decreased last year because immigration stopped."
And you think that's to anyone's benefit but the defense contractors? You and Librarian and the rest of MAGA are just proving you learned nothing from the Bush administration. You swallow the same bullshit as long as it has a MAGA veneer.
I understand your sentiment. Nobody is saying this is perfect. What we are saying is that it is better than the alternatives at the current time in the realm of what is possible. If you can achieve better, I’ll gladly support you. Good luck de-funding the military. I’m sure you will help many patriots support their families working in whatever it is you have in mind.
Has the military industrial complex been a benefit to the right wing in the last 75 years? Has it yielded us any victories?
Yes and No. Defense spending is good if it is coupled with a re-industrialization policy of the West. The fact that NATO is outproduced by Russia is a pathetic joke. Same during COVID when we were at the mercy of Chinese import for basic necessities. However, you’re correct to point out that the private economic interests need to be subordinated to larger political realities. Destroying the defense industry won’t achieve anything but it needs to be local and decentralized. Not under the control of international banking cartels or globalist technocrats who offshore production and import 3rd world labor according to global capitalist calculations.
MAGA mourns and despises what has happened to Britain, to Canada. So does Trump. Save yourself if you can. We are still far from saved and we know it, so considerations of niceness we can ill afford should have no part of any equation. Greenland is a strategic necessity for America who is the largest target in the world. Why shouldn’t we annex what extends our safety? Mind your own business—there is no international order that is not a poor disguise for tyranny.
As your favourite Canadian fan, I can't wait to read this one and send it to all my (liberal minded) friends.
It’s like the divorce culture of the 1970’s. Mom and Dad split up, older son goes with Dad, younger son goes with mom. Dad still does “dad” things, work long hours, hangs with buddies, sports, etc. Mom is unleashed to find herself and explores, expanding herself to a whole new way of doing everything. Older brother stays essentially the same as Dad, younger brother expands along with mom, learning new ways to tackle old ideas. When the brothers infrequently do come together, they resort to commonalities; sports per se. Older brother thinks the game is his, a conservative approach. younger brother plays an entirely new way, expansive and looking towards a future. This is Canada and the US. Really, it comes down to older brother being butt-hurt over the Stanley Cup residing with the younger brother for a long time.
> TFW Trump patches over Canadian relations by returning the Stanley Cup