A Generation Ago, Or Two, When There

The Canadian Middle Class Is Under Less Pressure Than Any Other Middle Class In Any Developed Country On The Planet. So They Feel Good. They Feel Optimistic. They Feel Secure.

The Soviet Union Was Brought Down By A Strange Global Coalition Of Western European Conservatives, Eastern European Nationalists, Russian Liberals, Chinese Communists, And Afghan Islamic Reactionaries, To Name Only A Few. Many Of These Discordant Groups Disliked The United States Intensely. But Americans Were Able To Mobilize Them To Direct Their Ire At The Soviet Union First.

World War Ii Proved A Hypothesis That Alexis De Tocqueville Advanced A Century Before: The War-fighting Potential Of A Democracy Is At Its Greatest When War Is Most Intense; At Its Weakest When War Is Most Limited. This Is A Lesson With Enduring Relevance To Our Own Times - And Our Own Wars.

That Is The Way Successful Countries, And Canada Has Been One Of The Most Successful Countries Over The Past Quarter Century, They Operate. That When You Win, You Win Within Limits, When You Lose, You Accept The Outcome.

Donald Trump Didn't Have A Polling Operation Until Very Late In His Campaign. How Did He Know What To Do? That The Ted Cruz People Leaked Their Polls To Trump Because They Were Looking Forward To Eliminating All The Other Rivals, Clearing The Way For A Cruz-trump Fight That They Were Certain Cruz Would Win. In The End, Cruz Was The Last Man Standing, It's True. If He Had Known At The Beginning What He Knew At The End, He Might Have Thought Twice. The Congressional Republican Party Thought They Could Make Trump Their Tool To Impose Their Very Unpopular Agenda. Instead, They Became His Tool.