Economically dependent on their northern neighbor, business owners in Washington state are laying off employees and shutting their doors.

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    As a Canadian I feel bad for this. A lot of Americans in these tourist towns love Canadians and didn’t even vote for Trump!

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      We need the pain. Just like you needed the pain from Trump to oust your far right, We need everybody, even the people in the deep blue states to say absolutely not to the entire right agenda, or shit here is never going to get better

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        We didn’t oust our far right. They got more votes than they’ve had in decades. They just got them in the wrong places.

        We also lost our left wing party whose votes got gobbled up by the centre-left Liberals.

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      As an American, I can hardly blame the Canadians. Who would want to cross the border when doing so might get you tossed into a dark hole in El Salvador for no reason whatsoever?

      It absolutely does suck for the Americans who rely on those tourist dollars, though, as well as the Canadians who lose a destination they love. I really hope we can restore sanity sooner rather than later, but I fear it would take an act of God to do so.

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        Same. I can absolutely understand their anger.

        We have a psychopath openly expressing a willingness to take something by force. This is the definition of terrorism.