I want to call out Canada’s prime minister Carney for his well crafted speech at the 2026 Davos World Economic Forum. Maybe Canada should annex the USA rather than the other way around.

It is painful, embarrassing and sickening to watch the Trump administration methodically driving our great country off the road and into the weeds of blatant unilateralism. Listening to the despicable White House aid Stephen Miller speaking about the need for the USA to exercise its strength by threatening the world with the Trump administration’s aims at conquest is deeply distressing.

The Trump problem in the USA stems from his ring of back room schemers and, most importantly, the voters who put him in power … twice. Many of us were surprised at the magnitude of MAGA discontent and anger at the status quo. The various polls I’ve seen show that of the fraction of voters responding, about 30 % support Trump consistently. The remaining Trump voters seem to think that he is tolerable and, by default, a less terrible choice than the Democratic candidate.

Not being a political scientist, sociologist, economist or anthropologist I must restrain myself from anything more than superficial commentary. That said, what strikes me is the gap between voter confidence and their grasp of the consequences of having Trump in high office. It appears that many voters possess a wildly insufficient education in civics and history. Instead, that knowledge void is packed with bullshit. Before the internet and instant access to news and opinion, the movement of news was through narrower channels that spread poorly. Controversies were more sluggish and mob mentalities perhaps slower to spread. Today there is a hair trigger on personal political opinion for a great many.

Today any individual with half-baked opinions can potentially incite unrest even at a great distance with fake news and recently with AI produced images. And energized with Christian nationalist ideology, people can cite supernatural powers to justify their insane political views. Political ideology justified by supernatural forces is impossible to reason with.

The people who have been complaining about the poor quality of American education were right all along. A third of the US population is unable to discern why Trump is a disaster for America and the huge hit our democracy is facing. This is largely an education problem and those adults so afflicted can be expected to carry their ignorance and poor judgement to their graves.The critical mass (of idiots) for this disaster is smaller than many of us thought. I am unable to fathom how this might be changed for the better.