This means national-populists getting elite supporters, especially moneyed oligarchs and IT overlords. None of these are currently behind any of the national-populist movements in the streets in 2022. This approach will not work today because the US civil rights movement had the backing of the then-current elites (Supreme Court, corporate foundations, television, the Pentagon, more than one White House administration). There’s a video somewhere on the interwebs by (I think) Trucker advocates appealing to Canadian police to stand down on the grounds that they should reconsider whether or not they want to look like the Selma cops at the Edmund Pettus Bridge or Bull Connor’s Department of Public Safety in the streets of Birmingham. This has to be made into a major issue (example: advocating a law forbidding freezing of accounts, setting up alt-financial networks). The real issue here is the Trudeau Regime denial of online financial services and seizing private property which are more dangerous to a dissident movement as they strike at the underlying ability to organize. Overall, these are not the real threat as you can figure there is always going to be some ration of mayhem when large numbers of people are being moved about. Yes, there were acts of police brutality when the Ottawa police cleared the Truckers (trampling by police horses, pepper sprayings). (Bizarre that it has come to this, isn’t it?) Perhaps mass acts of civil disobedience by Truckers, Farmers, et alia flying these flags to protest Globalization, the Great Reset and Great Replacement.
This is an issue around which nationalists can organize since it resounds with your average citizen. We see the same in the USA with the feds now stigmatizing many traditional American symbols. The Trudeau Regime is alienating more Canadians by sanctioning the old Canadian red ensign flag.
Perhaps we are seeing a similar situation here with the Canadian Truckers.Ĭan the Dissident Right provide the vanguard for the Truckers (and Dutch Farmers, Yellow Vests, anti-lockdown activists, Brxiteers, and similar such movements)? Doubtful that any of these will go full fash, but there is a possibility for them turning to some form of national-populism. Back in the late 19th century radicals theorized that the workers would not get beyond trade union consciousness until there was a vanguard to provide the leadership.