American liberals in search of hope can look to the Canadian election. Just five months ago, the country's incumbent Liberal Party appeared headed for an epic defeat. It trailed the Conservative Party by 25 percentage points, and its leader, then'Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had an approval rating of just 22 percent. Forecasters predicted that the Liberals would win 35 seats in the country's 343-seat Parliament, compared with 236 for the Conservatives. Instead, the Liberals are set to win at least 155'a plurality larger than they had before. How did the party pull off this astonishing feat' To many, the answer is that they didn't: Donald Trump did. 'The Conservatives' 25 percentage point lead in the polls has swiftly turned into a single-digit deficit as Mr. Trump has become the race's dominant issue,' The New York Times wrote three weeks ago. 'Trump Effect Leaves Canada's Conservatives Facing Catastrophic Loss,' read an April 16 headline in The Guardian. The theory of the case is...
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