“Carney … spoke directly to leaders who have been helping keep Trump’s influence alive through symbolic compliance, economic hedging, and political cowardice. Appeasement. Normalization. “Going along to get along.””
—Dean Blundell, Mark Carney Didn’t Just Call Out Trump — He Called Out All of Us In A Historic Speech For The Ages
#carney #trump #authoritarianism

“Authoritarianism doesn’t need your loyalty. It just needs your silence. Your hedging. Your “pragmatism.” … Carney made it clear: appeasing Trump’s reality doesn’t buy stability — it buys collapse. Political agency evaporates. Sovereignty erodes. Democracy rots from the inside. Mutually assured destruction — not just militarily, but morally.”
—Dean Blundell, Mark Carney Didn’t Just Call Out Trump — He Called Out All of Us In A Historic Speech For The Ages
#carney #trump #authoritarianism

“Trump is intentionally…dragging every ally and market down with it. Appeasement, whether symbolic or material, only accelerates the burn. Carney wasn’t angry. He was resolute. This wasn’t anti-American. It was post-delusional.”
—Dean Blundell, Mark Carney Didn’t Just Call Out Trump — He Called Out All of Us In A Historic Speech For The Ages
#carney #trump

“Mark Carney…didn’t flinch for a millisecond. If he thought Trump’s response might make Canada’s future harder, he didn’t show it. If he thought this could cost him personally, he didn’t hedge. If he felt fear, he didn’t outsource it. He stood on his business … fully aware of the cost of telling the truth, deciding it was worth paying anyway. That’s leadership…”
—Dean Blundell, Mark Carney Didn’t Just Call Out Trump — He Called Out All of Us In A Historic Speech For The Ages
#carney #trump