Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.

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    I feel people tend to forget that Canada almost voted in a Trump clone.

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        Like, things can be bad in different ways. It’s not meaningful to describe every corrupt politician as a Trump clone, Trump didn’t invent sucking, and his form of suck is pretty unique.

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      Oh, we’ve commonly elected people just as evil as Trump. So have the Americans. Just not as stupid. Meanwhile, we threw away our pretense of “rule of law” at the Toronto G20 in 2010 just so Harper could impress China, and no following government ever did a damn thing about it.

      But if you’re talking about the last election, it was not even close, there was no “almost” about it.

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        Is that a “fuck trumpism with blood as the lube” “no almost” or an “all aboard the fascism-train” “no almost”? (I’m still ignorant on CN politics)

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          There was no Trump-like candidate that had a chance in hell in the last Federal election. It was a historic loss for the conservatives.