Summary
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced he is canceling a $100M contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink and banning U.S. firms from provincial contracts in retaliation for Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada.
Ford warned that American companies could lose “tens of billions” in revenues.
Canada and Mexico have imposed counter-tariffs, while Ontario also plans to remove American liquor brands from stores.
Trump responded by suggesting Canada should become the U.S.’s 51st state to avoid tariffs, arguing Canada’s trade surplus makes it economically dependent on the U.S.
The people in the blue states already do speak up and rally against Trump. It hasn’t helped in the past and won’t help in the future, partly because they don’t have any power under the Electoral College, partly because it makes Trump voters double down, and partly because red states see it as a good thing to be doing something that makes blue states angry. They will happily harm themselves if it also harms liberals.
Your last point is true, though. There are more Trump voters in CA than there are in some large number of red states combined.
Your first paragraph is undercut by your second.
I didn’t say blue voters. I said people in blue states. That means blue voters, red voters, independent voters, and non voters. I meant everyone in those blue states should feel the effects and speak up and out.
And those voters would still vote for Trump. They will claim their hardships weren’t due to Canada’s tariffs but due to California having too high of taxes and not giving them enough water.
Many of the blue states send republicans to the house, and if those districts went the other way, we’d actually have a house that might actually be interested in holding Trump accountable.