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guillaumeb

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3. Also from the article:

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 01:50 PM

Jan 2016

The Bernie Sanders rally in Davenport was the precise opposite of the Donald Trump rally in Burlington and yet precisely the same in every detail . . . The same specter of angry white people haunts Sanders’s rally, the same sense of longing for a country that was, the country that has been taken away.

My Anglophone cousin overlooks one thing, that Trump appeals to a vision of the US, a vision that only existed in rich households. In the real US, that US inhabited by 90% of the people, life was endless work with no prospect for relief except death. There was no golden age of US history, except for those who had the gold.
These angry old white people are like the Southerners who romanticize slavery and the South, dreaming that they and their families would have lived on a plantation, when the reality is that most Southern whites were poor sharecroppers.

Sanders is talking about a US that could be, and that is the difference.

As a metis, I also liked this part,

The piece opens with a cringeworthy bit of smug Anglo-Canadian nationalist liturgy in which Marche — who, like this writer, hails from Canada’s largest city — waxes poetic about the country’s “inert virtue of tolerance” that, he tells us, is “the most prominent inheritance of the British Empire.” (It is unclear where Canada’s lengthy history of racism — including the state’s attempted cultural genocide of the country’s indigenous population — fits into Marche’s historical narrative.)

Canada has had a long history, mainly among the Anglophones, of racial and linguistic intolerance.

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