I don’t have time to read the article right now unfortunately, and have only glanced at it, but anyone not concerned about the global rise of authoritarianism isn’t paying attention. Based on my glances, I thought the commenters disparaging the Tyee read less of the article than me. I think we’re seeing a post-election uptick in US commenters making US-centric comments on Canadian news article posts on lemmy.ca. When they’re relevant or thoughtful, I don’t mind. I hope to read this slightly dated, but perhaps more relevant now than before, article later

Maybe instead of conflating authoritarianism and anti immigration policies, we could try winning elections?

This 7 month old article sounds more conspiracy theorist than actual reporting.

Take an independent voter in America. In 2016, almost all Left media screamed that trump was going to be a fascist. And despite the craziness on Jan 6, he lost in free and fair elections. So when the same damn arguments, no matter how reasonable, were trotted out 8 years later, after people had seen trump not turn to an authoritarian regime, how on Earth did we expect to win over those who were unsure?

Jesus, call Polievre lots of things but seriously, a threat to democracy? Damnit, I vote Left and this just makes me realize the Tyee isn’t a particularly good or vetted news source. (Admittedly, what did I expect, you do get what you pay for.)