.ryanlcooper: Canada's trucker blockade is a right-wing fantasy made real
. The extreme right can't win an election, so they are effectively taking the auto industry and the global supply chain hostage to get what they want.
It would be hard to imagine a more legitimate use of state authority to resist this demand — not with a massacre, of course, but with firm action to reopen traffic and take the culprits into custody. Not only would it be protecting the health of the public and reopening the flow of vital goods and services, but it also would set a salutary example.
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