{"id":404810,"date":"2022-02-11T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-left-turns-on-a-working-class-rebellion\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:31:22","slug":"the-left-turns-on-a-working-class-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-left-turns-on-a-working-class-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Left turns on a working-class rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Left turns on a working-class rebellion<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The\u00a0workers of the world should unite, so long as it isn\u2019t against\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/01\/vaccine-mandates-for-cross-border-truckers-have-no-upside\/\">COVID-19 restrictions<\/a>. In that event, they are hateful kooks who deserve whatever they get.<\/p>\n<p>The political drama playing out in Canada, where truckers protesting a vaccine mandate are\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/canadian-trucker-convoy-blocks-major-trade-route-along-u-s-border\/\">blockading the streets<\/a>, is an expression of growing exhaustion with coronavirus restrictions, but also of a class conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The criticisms of the truckers by Canada\u2019s political and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> establishment are\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/go-fund-yourself\/\">heavy with contempt<\/a>, reflecting an assumption that they are ignorant clods who can\u2019t possibly have a point \u2014 when they clearly do.<\/p>\n<p>On the question that sparked the protests, the truckers are right. Despite the number of COVID-19 cases collapsing since early January, the government imposed a new rule the middle of last month requiring truckers crossing the border back from the United States to be vaccinated or to isolate for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This would effectively make it impossible for unvaccinated truckers to work, and for what?<\/p>\n<p>Truckers aren\u2019t selling concessions at arenas, or waiters circulating at crowded restaurants \u2014 they work in a remarkably self-contained profession. And it\u2019s not the case that the 10 to 15 percent of truckers who are unvaccinated \u2014 and who have obviously been unvaccinated during the entire pandemic \u2014 are going to start a new surge of coronavirus cases in Canada.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-mandates.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Truckers and their supporters carry flags as they continue blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit and Windsor, in protest against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada February 10, 2022. \" class=\"wp-image-21175738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-mandates.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-mandates.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-mandates.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Truckers and their supporters carry flags as they continue blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit and Windsor, in protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates, in Windsor, Canada, on Feb. 10, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Carlos Osorio<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The vaccine mandate simply isn\u2019t a very important policy, and a reasonable Canadian government would admit as much. Indeed, the government went back and forth on the mandate before finally deciding to impose it.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reacting as if the truckers must be fought on the beaches and landing fields like an invading force rather than regarding them as fellow citizens who deserve respect even if he considers them grievously mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t give in to those who fly racist flags,\u201d he has intoned. \u201cWe won\u2019t cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonor the memory of our veterans.\u201d No, according to Trudeau, \u201chate can never be the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The truckers are another sign of the class inversion in advanced Western countries. The Left continues to lose working-class voters and pick up college-educated voters, and the well-coiffed Justin Trudeau, fully attuned to haute progressive sensibilities, is the perfect paladin for the upper middle class. On the other hand, the Right is doing the opposite and sees blue-collar virtue in the truckers to whom it once would have felt no natural connection.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-truckers-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A person carries a sign as truckers and their supporters continue to protest against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 10, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-21175695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-truckers-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-truckers-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-truckers-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A person carries a sign as truckers and their supporters continue to protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Canada, on Feb. 10, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Patrick Doyle<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Usually, the Left has championed international cooperation among aggrieved workers, but in this case, it\u2019s the populist Right in the US and elsewhere that is promoting the trucker protest and importing the idea to their own countries.<\/p>\n<p>The protest has had such resonance because it is the first significant break in Canada\u2019s long-standing, far-reaching regime of coronavirus restrictions. Unlike in the United States, very few people, either in elected politics or the media, have made the case against restrictions \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The populist eruption from the truckers has changed the politics of the pandemic response, emboldening or forcing conservatives finally to say, \u201cEnough.\u201d The conservative leader who lost to Trudeau last year and is a relatively conciliatory figure has been dumped and will likely be replaced by a more combative alternative. Alberta and Saskatchewan moved this week to lift various restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the situation will have to be defused. Lawbreaking by the truckers, who have been blocking traffic on international bridges, shouldn\u2019t be condoned or tolerated. Trudeau should give in to the truckers on the vaccination mandate, and then the protesters should declare victory and go home or, at the minimum, take a step back from any confrontation with the police.<\/p>\n<p>The protests will likely be remembered as an inflection point in the response to the pandemic. In the US, it took worrisome polls for blue-state governors to break the ice on mask mandates; in Canada, it took an unlikely protest by a segment of sneered-at and insulted workers.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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In that event, they are hateful kooks who deserve whatever they get. The political drama playing out in Canada, where truckers protesting a vaccine mandate are\u00a0blockading the streets, is an expression of growing exhaustion with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/canada-truckers-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125612,1545,82862,71045,76339],"class_list":["post-404810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-11-22","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-truckers","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}