Justin Trudeau's Postnationalism

06/16/2019

The elite in Canada are arguably ahead of America's in their trajectory towards mass rootlessness, perhaps most notably observed when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proclaimed that the country was a "postnational" nation, one that had "no core identity" anymore -- something never so explicitly stated by Barack Obama or the Democratic leadership since he left office. Alarmingly for Canada, we're now seeing evidence that Trudeau's declaration is becoming broadly and deeply internalized among that country's elite. Although Canada is generally an afterthought in American politics, spreading globalism up north cannot portend well for the U.S.