I wrote today at Politico about the trucker protests and the American Right:
It’s not 2010 again in GOP politics and never will be, but you could be forgiven for having flashbacks to the beginnings of the Tea Party.
A leaderless grassroots revolt has emerged from almost nowhere, causing outrage in the media and among elected officials, as it opposes government overreach in high-spirited demonstrations.
So, yeah, this is happening in Canada and not the United States, but, hey, we’re still talking about North America.
The embrace of the Canadian trucker protesters by the American right is a sign that the Tea Party spirit circa the early Obama years was never fully extinguished. Since then, everything has changed — most importantly, the rise of Donald Trump and his movement — and nothing has changed. It is freedom that remains the most natural and powerful Republican rallying cry.