This article is hilarious and very, very long.

Canada’s “strategic” counter-tariffs didn’t push US voters to the Democrats. They could have completely wimped out, not put any counter-tariffs, and voters would have still voted Democrat.

Why?

Because it wasn’t Canada’s counter-tariffs that made life miserable for Americans, but the tariffs imposed on Canadian goods by Donald Trump.

Canadian companies weren’t on the hook for the tariffs. A tariff is a tax on the US consumer as punishment for buying foreign goods. So when your own government hits another country with tariffs, that government is taxing you.

Canada putting counter-tariffs on goods hurt Canadian wallets by charging them extra, not the other way around.

Do tariffs hurt outside countries? Yes, but that’s not what voters react to at all: they react to the surcharge. It is the higher prices they pay that rigs the outcome.

So the entire spine of the article, that the cunning Liberal government used counter-tariffs to make extra pain during mid-terms, is amusing, but entirely inaccurate. The federal Liberals just hurt their own people with counter-tariffs and never acknowledged it, instead strutting around as if they had a victory.

No, Donald Trump shot himself in the foot with the idea. That was what sunk the Republicans. Not the Liberals, but Trump.