trump is not known for being particularly articulate, but on a certain level i think he's making a valid point. and, i don't think justin trudeau is a very good source of information regarding understanding how things are done here in canada, considering that he seems to be more culturally californian than canadian or quebecois.

i'm reminded of parizeau blaming his referendum loss on "money and the ethnic vote". and, no, that wasn't that long ago.

these kids are not the future of the party - i don't expect any of them to be re-elected more than twice. they routinely say stupid things, and it's just a matter of time before it gets to them. i mean, maybe one or two of them will wise up, but i wouldn't count on it. what will be awful is if one of them sticks their foot in their mouth so badly that they lose their seat to a republican, as they're supposed to be in unloseable seats - which was the point of putting them there.

a lot of the time, the fact is that the basis of their cringe is that they're presenting a perspective that is considered to be backwards, here. those clearly anti-semitic remarks, for example. or, erasing israel from the map. i mean, is this representative ahmadinejad, or what? these are things that you expect people in oecd countries to know better than to state.

there was a famous line by adlai stevenson, who was very much the cultural forefather to the elder trudeau. as he was dodging shit being thrown at him by right-wing protestors, he insisted on pushing the cops off. why? because he didn't want to send these idiots to jail. what he wanted to do was send these idiots to school.

and, if it was anybody other than trump, you'd have expected something worded a little more along those lines.

but, on a fundamental level, he's making a valid point - the west is not going to learn much of value by adopting third-world perspectives about much of anything, and doesn't even really have the obligation to give those perspectives the time of day.