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>> everyone is just waiting for it to blow over when he's gone in 2 years and then it's back to usual.

Trump is the symptom, not the disease. It will not go back to normal. US politics has changed. The US people have changed. There won't be a Trump 2.0 but there will be other equally horrible leaders. Maybe not the next president, but likely the one after that. Canada must adapt to the new realty rather than deny and wait.

Exactly. If it’s happened once, it will happen again.
Correction: it has already happened twice.
Canadians acting like the consequences will never be the same because of one man, when you can walk over the French-German border today with a passport instead of a rifle.
Yeah, I'm pretty certain the Americans don't want the solution the Germans got to correct that problem.
Yeah, it’s nowhere near as bad as things were in 1940, so I don’t think that it’s even the same problem.
It took world war splitting country ... and AfD won loval elections.