If there’s anything Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appreciates, it’s theater. It’s about the only thing he’s been trained for except being a member of the idle rich, something he’s done very well. Trudeau never appeared in a major stage play but he is well known among friends and professional acquaintances for his tasteless blackface performances — a routine he’s repeated so often he’s lost count of the number..So with the prime minister in Los Angeles today for the Summit of the Americas, he’s well placed to see the first installment of the January 6 Committee hearings, an absolutely ridiculous Democratic theatrical production that will be assessing the so-called Jan. 6 2021 “insurrection.”.The committee has been listening to witnesses for a year now and is made up of Democrats and two turn-coat Republicans who are sure to lose their upcoming nomination battles..For most Americans, the Jan. 6 incident is now a murky memory more than an existential threat to the nation. A Trump rally got out of hand when some supporters walked into Washington’s Capitol Hill and clashed with police. They never seriously threatened to take over the government. If an incompetent mob like that can take over the United States government then there really is a problem in Washington..Despite the idiocy of it all, there are still people languishing in jail for just being innocent bystanders. Other people are being treated worse than Jihadists..And the Democrats are still hoping to make some political hay out of this incident. So with formal hearings starting this week, they have decided to go with the full primetime treatment and hired James Goldston, the former president of ABC News, to ensure they get it right..With Joe Biden as president, the Dems have little to celebrate these days. The southern border is a disaster with illegal immigrants crossing at will and there’s another migrant caravan due any day. Biden won’t even visit the border let alone admit there’s a problem. Inflation is soaring and gas prices have hit $10 a gallon in California. America is running out of everything — including baby food..It’s difficult at times to know if Biden is emulating Trudeau or if Trudeau is aping the American president. When Trudeau calls his political opponents Nazis and racists, Biden calls his enemies white supremacists and domestic terrorists. When Trudeau claims the Conservative Party is going to the far right, Biden says the Republican Party has become “extreme” and beholden to the “MAGA” crowd..Biden has even become theatrical. On Wednesday night he went on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to answer some softball questions from a stridently Democratic late night “comedian” and describe an alternate universe where people are always asking him why he is always “so square” in his politics. This was on the same day as a pro-abortion activist turned himself in before he could kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh..Biden hasn’t exactly discouraged the abortion activists from hounding the Trump-appointed judges and literally standing outside their doorsteps, but Kimmel didn’t ask questions about that..The Summit of the Americas is turning into another PR disaster for Biden. Only “like-minded” countries were invited, so that meant Cuba and Venezuela couldn’t come. But with the U.S. and Canada crushing dissent like Cuba and Venezuela, it wasn’t clear how unlike-minded these pariah states were..Then Mexico told Biden that he could shove his conference and they would catch up with Biden sometime in July. Besides, they had to push a migrant caravan into the U.S..It just demonstrated again how nobody is taking Biden very seriously — except Trudeau of course, because these two are really like-minded..So Biden — and perhaps Trudeau — have a lot to gain from the January 6 Committee. Biden somehow needs to compromise the November midterm elections that the Republicans are poised to win in a landslide, taking the House of Representatives and the Senate with huge majorities. If Biden can repeat the mail-in voting and ballot harvesting of the 2020 presidential election, it might bolster Democratic odds. If the Democrats can smear the Republicans as insurrectionists, it might accrete their electoral support. .Of course it’s a long shot. But it’s the only shot that Biden and the Democrats have right now..So how does this benefit Trudeau. Well, he needs to continue to characterize the Freedom Convoy as being white supremacists and insurrectionists. But, you say, they didn’t even enter a federal building. No, they didn’t promote white supremacy, dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commit arson in an apartment building or pack firearms, but that didn’t stop the Trudeau government and the municipal government from lying about that. .There is an overall strategy here and it is one shared by both Trudeau and Biden: demonize your enemy and never let up. It doesn’t matter how outrageous the lie, keep repeating it. Trudeau is moving ahead on two fronts: maintaining that Canada is threatened by violent and dangerous and often undefined forces. To suppress these forces he is increasing gun control and targeting alleged disinformation through increased censorship..When directly opposed by protest, Trudeau has shown he is willing to use the full force of the state to crush that rebellion through severe legislative means. .The Jean Chretien administration was once dubbed “the friendly dictatorship.”.The Justin Trudeau government is fast becoming the unfriendly dictatorship..And Canadians need to be worried about that.
