I think comments linking this to trump alone miss the point of the article. It mentioned that even when they had the power to do so, some trump era tarrifs were not removed by the Biden admin.

Exactly. Your archaic anti-democratic system concentrates too much power to very few people whose elections get cosmic-level significance. Your political culture reveres the supposed wisdom of your founding daddies as if political thought peaked in the late 1700s. This structurally produces chaotic outcomes and an inability to adapt. Mind you it's not a matter of codifying the conventions Trump broke. It's about rethinking what you mean by democracy. Hardening the conventions does not solve the problem. Since American political thought loves comparisons to ancient Rome: hardening the conventions is what Sulla did. It did not save the Republic, it just ossified its inability to reform and defined the rules of the antirepublican game that people like Pompey and Caesar had to play in the road to Empire.

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I don't think the article is intended to speak to changes within the US.

Even if Democrats take the house and Senate, Trump controls the white house and Republicans own the Supreme Court.

I think you may have missed the wider point. The article's thesis was that we can't expect these policies to be cancelled because even when the democrats are in control, they do not roll back these policies.

For example, it used the Biden administration as recent evidence that democrat control doesn't mean walking back republican policy, even if the dems promise to roll back those specific policies. It also noted that prominent dems are not looking at rolling back tarrifs should they win in 2028.

Canadians are smart enough and understand our politics. They know 2028 at the soonest and even by then, it will take years or even decades to rebuild trust.

Canada realizes it doesn't matter (to the wider world) who has control. Until recently the overall goals of the two countries were in line so it wasn't a problem.

I thought it was an interesting article because of the intense reaction I've seen to the ratchet meme and others around that concept by people in the USA.

I guess I thought that maybe my (non mainstream) political views made it seem pretty obvious and not exactly a hot take, and I shouldn't expect it to be a wildly held view. This article made me consider that I am probably influenced by being someone outside the USA, and what I have observed in terms of the changes to foreign policy over my decades of existence.

Maybe it makes a massive difference internally, but it feels extremely surface level externally, i.e. the leader being polite and well spoken vs bumbling.

Eta: Happy Halloween (I assume your user name is meant to be spooky)

Our reputation will never recover from this

One of the reasons the person in the article holds this view is that Biden did not undo all the tarrifs of the first term, despite promising to.

So I'm sure no one will be sad to see trump gone, it doesn't mean the tariffs or other unfavorable policies will be reversed.

Which one tho

Adding my own opinion, not intending to invalidate yours: I would like to see an end to imperialism of all kinds and a world where power isn't used to harm others.