Trump’s World: Trudeau On The Brink, Germany Moves Right

Right now, we are watching an international wave of conservative victory. It’s happening across the world. Part of this wave is a result of President Trump. Part of it just includes President Trump.

Justin Trudeau is now likely to resign. His liberal government has now crumbled, largely because of a tweetstorm initiated by President Trump on Truth Social mocking Trudeau as the governor of the 51st state and also suggesting he’s going to tariff the living hell out of Canada if he, Trudeau, does not give in on some trade deals.

An article in the UK Daily Mail reported on this, writing:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on the brink of resigning as his liberal government crumbles around him, according to CTV News.

Trudeau, 52, is ‘considering his options as leader’, sources have told the broadcaster, while his Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland revealed she will quit.

Freeland quit on Monday after clashing with Trudeau on issues including how to handle possible U.S. tariffs, dealing a huge blow to an already unpopular government.

In a stinging resignation letter, Freeland dismissed Trudeau’s push for increased spending as a political gimmick that could hurt Ottawa’s ability to deal with the 25 percent import tariffs U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he will impose.

The resignation by Freeland, 56, who also served as deputy prime minister, is one of the biggest crises Trudeau has faced since taking power in November 2015. 

It also leaves him without a key ally when he is on track to lose the next election to the official opposition Conservatives.

Trudeau quickly came under pressure to go from the New Democrats, the smaller opposition party which earlier this year pulled its unconditional support of the minority Liberal government but has continued to back the prime minister on some legislation through parliament.

‘I’m calling on Justin Trudeau to resign. He has to go,’ party leader Jagmeet Singh told reporters.

This does not mean a new election will be held immediately. Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party — who would skunk the entire Liberal Party in the next election — is, of course, looking for a new election. He should be because Trudeau’s Left-wing agenda has become unbelievably unpopular in Canada.

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He has called on Trudeau to resign, saying yesterday:

Mr. Trudeau is being held in office by one man, Jagmeet Singh. A fifth of Liberal MPs have written a letter for him to resign. His Deputy Prime Minister has walked out on him. His Housing Minister has quit — that on top of numerous other female ministers who stormed out after his appalling mistreatment and abuse and dishonesty towards them. Eighty percent of Canadians have lost confidence in this Prime Minister. So why is Jagmeet Singh making the entire country wait for him to get his pension? That is the question today.

The real reason these other parties aren’t voting for a snap election is because they’re afraid all of the losses to Trudeau would accrue to Poilievre. So, right now, the Canadian government is basically on the brink.

Because Canada is a coalitional system, they require a majority of the Canadian parliament to vote for a motion of no confidence in order to bring down the government. But right now, the Canadian parliament is split between a wide variety of parties. The Left-wing parties have been hesitant to call a new election because they will not do better in a new election, and Poilievre will become prime minister — probably with a sheer majority of votes in Parliament. That is all that is holding Trudeau in office at this point.

The reason he is unpopular is because he has pursued every bad policy possible to pursue. In fact, this little rebellion inside his own party has been instigated by the fact he wants to spend, spend, and spend. He wants to create a massive budget deficit in order to address the fact that he is about to be hit with Trump’s tariffs.

But this is not just happening in Canada. It is also happening in Germany. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Germany is headed to an early election, writing:

Embattled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote on Monday, the first step in a sequence of events that will lead to early elections next year—and the latest symptom of mounting political instability in Europe.

Monday’s vote came after the dramatic collapse of Scholz’s strife-ridden coalition government last month, which added a political crisis to the economic slump that has gripped the country for the past two years. 

Without a majority in Parliament, Scholz called a confidence vote—which he fully expected to lose—to clear the way for the dissolution of Parliament and a new vote, now expected in February. Germany’s post-World War II constitution instituted a multistep process for early elections in an attempt to prevent the endemic political instability.

However, if there were to be a new election, Friedrich Merz would likely take over. Merz is a center-Right politician who is very pro-America. Scholz is a center-Left politician. Merz is a representative of the same party as Angela Merkel, who was Chancellor of Germany from 2005-2021. However, Merz hated Merkel’s immigration policy, which condemned the center-Right to a decade of wilderness.

The Journal goes on, writing:

Opinion polls show the center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by veteran conservative politician and businessman Friedrich Merz, as the likely winner of the ballot on Feb. 23. Yet the party is unlikely to command a big enough majority to govern alone or with the FDP, the other center-right party in Parliament, and will likely need to form an alliance with one or several center-left parties, forcing it to dilute its pro-business and law-and-order agenda.

The bottom line, however, is that the winds have shifted across the world. The West is tired of stagnation. The West is tired of conciliation with Left-wing forces who are, in turn, conciliatory with radical Islamists.

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The West is finally standing up on its hind legs.

Some of the leaders of this new movement include, obviously, President Trump; Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy who is apparently going to attend the inauguration of President Trump; Geert Wilders in the Netherlands; and Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary; among others.

Leaders of the center-Right to those who are libertarian are moving in a similar direction. Why? Because chaos and instability are pleasures of the luxurious wealthy. When things are going really well, you can afford dumb ideas. When things are going poorly, it turns out that you cannot.

And so it is very heartening to see Western countries turn away from the foolish redistributionist, self-hating Left-wing policies and turn toward something better.

It is a very good thing. This change is, indeed, in part due to Trump, but it is not only due to him. It is gaining traction across the world as people begin to realize how dumb Left-wing policy has been.