https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-justin-trudeau-is-able-to-stand-up-to-donald-trump Beneath the day’s conflicts between Trudeau and Trump lay a deeper conflict between a society that, for all its difficulties, has a strong public sphere and a powerful sense of solidarity—and the American one, which is debased every day by its own leader. The bankruptcy of America’s social capital becomes more evident when we see it flourish elsewhere.
Ex-Pat Adam Gopnik brings it home in this closing paragraph. I do not have a deep "trust" of politicians, I do not "trust" Doug Ford, but I believe in them elementally in a way I could never with the crew of Republicans. All the flips are switching towards encouraging and supporting corruption now. It's not Hitler - nowhere close - but it's a massive failure nonetheless.