canada

Reddit comments over the past year:
1. Constant barrage of "Trudeau sucks and must resign"
2. Trudeau steps down from Liberal Party leadership
3. Barrage stops, Trudeau continues doing what he has always done (while parliament is prorogued)
4. "Wow Trudeau is great, what changed?"
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There’s this political YouTuber, JJ something, who talked at one point about the Canadian identity and one thing that many Canadians identify with “anti-American-ness”

I suspect this explicit “standing up to the US” has broad omnipartisan support

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It does, but there has been a very obvious psyop going on that stopped.

Could be a good time to go back and compare active accounts before/after the resignation.

I think a psyop works by leveraging and amplifying existing sentiments to make them disproportional to reality. People who are narrative hoppers get caught up in it, resulting in more organic support too.

"Fuck Trudeau" is real, but one moment it seems like 80% of the sentiment and next moment it's nearly gone. Plenty of those people are still die-hard Trump supporters and dying for Canada to join as a 51st state, they still exist! But they're not getting as much play as they did before.

I think the polling of PP is more reflective of reality, and reflective of what you describe. But the shift in comments on Reddit have been drastic and dramatic basically overnight.

Right. Do you think it’s was “fuck Trudeau” as in “fuck liberals” and now it’s “Trudeau is great” as in “fuck the leadership candidates”?