Скачать или смотреть Rachel Maddow: How Canada JUST FLIPPED the Narrative and Crushed Trump’s Leverage

As the year closes, this narrative argues that Donald Trump’s Christmas-day threats toward Canada—including talk of Canada as a “51st state”—triggered a massive, grassroots Canadian consumer boycott. Rather than a random backlash, the boycott is portrayed as strategic: Canadians allegedly targeted industries tied to Republican donor networks, especially Kentucky bourbon and parts of the wine business, to make Trump’s enablers feel the costs directly. The piece claims the damage is severe: U.S. bourbon sales to Canada have collapsed (cited as an 85% loss), major brands report plunging orders, layoffs spread, and a flagship distillery is said to be shutting down for a year, putting about 1,500 union jobs at risk. It also cites a bankruptcy case as evidence that even barrel inventory has lost value in a “dismal” secondary market. Meanwhile, Canada is depicted as adapting—adding jobs, lowering unemployment, and finding alternatives—undercutting Trump’s expectation that Canada would fold. The central takeaway: even if governments sign a deal, Trump cannot force individual Canadians to buy U.S. bourbon. Once habits and trust break, they rarely snap back—showing the hard limit of intimidation in trade. It spotlights GOP silence—especially Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell—as workers take the hit, while Gov. Andy Beshear calls pain real. It says Trump demands Canada “restore” U.S. alcohol through USMCA talks, but a decentralized boycott can’t be negotiated away—Canada has gone “elbows up.”

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