studying american political rage, its sources, it s a basil depths, it s retention us fracturing power. i thought i was studying an external from not phenomenon at a distance, and i was. now the rage has come for me. the anti vax trucker convoy has made it up close and personal. three weeks ago, truckers formed a convoy to protest the cross border covid vaccine mandate. last weekend, they rolled into my toronto neighborhood, near big bloor street and avenue road. i went on to bear witness. the scene was not surprising to me. the same sort of people i d seen at donald trump rallies and prepwork invections were there with their hollowed out faces, intimate with pain and their perpetually misspelled signs and their sense of belonging to a community of the exclude it. heading off our discussion tonight is stephen marche, author of the next civil war,
safe, protecting people s jobs, and restoring confidence in our institutions. steve schmidt will join us in a minute to consider rand paul s encouragement of these crimes. our first guest tonight predicted a version of this. in his book, the next civil war, the canadian author stephen marsh imagined the next american civil war breaking out over a sort of incident at some american bridge which could then lead to a conflict between local law enforcement and federal law enforcement and powdered keg of right wing revoke against the government would explode and become a national phenomenon. in the atlantic, stephen marche wright s quote, my fantasy became reality recently, except not in a rule american can county as i had envisioned, but in windsor, hunter area. for five years, i have been studying american political rage, its sources, it s a basil