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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to talk, in a two-part video this time, about President Donald Trump’s problems he’s having with both Canada and Mexico, but let’s look at Canada first and we’ll talk later about Mexico.
He’s in hot water with the Canadians. He’s aroused a dormant nationalism. Justin Trudeau—who will step down as prime minister and hand the Liberal Party directorship and with it the prime ministership, under their parliamentary system, to Mark Carney—was headed toward defeat.
That whole party was headed toward defeat when Donald Trump started to troll them—“Art of the Deal”—sort of goad them in bombastic style…