Canada

Canada’s retaliation will not hurt the fascists — it will help them.

The fascists paint us as villains, as scapegoats to distract the American public from their actual societal problems and keep them angry and engaged at an external target.

When they hit us and we hit back, we will cause them harm. The fascists will spin this harm as justification for the pre-existing vilification. They had already established the narrative that we were the cause of their problems and now they’ve turned that lie into the truth.

The fascists do not care that American people will be harmed. They are wealthy and powerful and will be able to live lives of luxury and privilege. Musk could lose 99% of his wealth and still live a life of comfort that goes beyond what anyone reading this would likely ever have.

So no, we will not hurt them with our tariffs or our boycotts. But we don’t do it for them we do it for us. We do it to help build strength and support the industries and workers in our own country and in the countries who like us are fighting back against this.

We do this because we want to feel like our actions have meaning to ourselves, to make us feel like we are part of the process of fighting back and saying that no, we will not acquiesce to the fascists.