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On paper a trade war between the US and Canada should be much harder on the northern country. But one country’s political economy can sustain the major costs of a trade war and the other’s cannot.

There is a broad and durable political coalition in Canada to stand up to Trump. The political coalition for hammering Canada with tariffs in the US is basically confined to a few Twitter posters.

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That coalition survived their civil war and has reconstructed after every setback since. I don't think we'll see the end of it, but it would be nice if was outnumbered again and shamed into yet another name change.