The Globe and Mail doesn’t seem to understand this difference.

In five days, Trump will most likely lose his two lifelines. He can try to sabotage the results, but even he knows he’s lost his base. He isn’t stumping in filled rooms anymore.

This isn’t January 6, 2021. He has gloriously squandered that goodwill. Truth Social stock is all but junk.

The Democrats rush in; and so, too do the investigations. Will he try some dirty stunts? Yes, but he doesn’t have the cheerleaders that he once did. Fox News’ ratings have taken a dive, and they are backing away from him. He is running out of people who are willing to amplify and spin for him.

Without the machine backing him up, he can’t get away with his usual blustering and bullying. He gains energy from an audience who has all but abandoned him.

The Iran war was a grave misstep. The tariffs against Canada blew up in his face. It is the American taxpayer who pay for these toxic policies. He put all his energy building up the billionaire economy at the expense of the middle-class economy, and the Tech Bros know that after November 2, they are in for a world of hurt. Without their support, Trump is further weakened.

There is a difference between fighting to win and fighting not to lose, and Trump is fighting not to lose. Canada is a prime position to fight to win. The fear is that Trump will be dangerous if he has nothing to lose.

But that’s not going to happen. He has billions. He has his family. He has his freedom. He has plenty to lose, and a self-indulgent man like Trump isn’t going to throw that away at this stage of his life.

Once the Democrats gain control of the House and the Senate, Trump gains a handy face-saving excuse: oh, he wanted to continue the tariffs and the unwinnable war in Iran, but the Democrats just got in the way.

He loves to blame others for his failures, and losing the House and the Senate on November 2, will give him precisely that. Canada must move full steam ahead without hesitation or fear.