Windsor, Canada from the Underground Railwood Memorial, Detroit, Michigan. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

Perhaps if you grow up in penthouse on top of a gilded tower in the middle of the predatory capitalist shark tank known as “New York City,” your world view is eternally corrupted by your pitiful life experience. Perhaps you think every human and nation on the planet are wholly focused on trying to rip you off every day on every thing.

But when you bring that sorry and twisted perspective to the White House you make real mistakes in discerning who is or isn’t your enemy, who is or isn’t trying to wheedle every nickel they can get out of you, and who is or isn’t a threat to our nation.

So it seems as Donald Trump tries to convince the American people that somehow our oldest, most loyal, and kindest neighbors and allies — the Canadians — are an enemy bent on destroying the United States through imaginary economic........

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