This is partly why I said before that the protestors needed an exit strategy. Their checkmate move would have been to vacate on their own terms before Trudeau sent his stormtroopers in because now Trudeau gets to say he took decisive action and ended the protests, claiming victory and gaining some prestige. He'll get to have his "mission accomplished" moment now. Depriving him of that should have been a key goal of the protest organizers. It's poor strategy to let it come to this.

Think of it like this: The_Donald beat the reddit admins by locking the forum and migrating to .win before the admins banned the subreddit. The admins then had to try and save face by banning a locked/inactive subreddit and looked stupid as a result. Really it was The_Donald who had the last word. Same logic would have applied here if the protestors got out on their own terms before Trudeau had a chance to make his move.

This is partly why I said before that the protestors needed an exit strategy. Their checkmate move would have been to vacate on their own terms before Trudeau sent his stormtroopers in because now Trudeau gets to say he took decisive action and ended the protests, claiming victory and gaining some prestige. He'll get to have his "mission accomplished" moment now. Depriving him of that should have been a key goal of the protest organizers. It's poor strategy to let it come to this.

Think of it like this: The_Donald beat the reddit admins by locking the forum and migrating to .win before the admins banned the subreddit. The admins then had to try and save face by banning a locked/inactive subreddit and looked stupid as a result. Really it was The_Donald who had the last word. Same logic here.

This is why I said before that the protestors needed an exit strategy. Their checkmate move would have been to vacate on their own terms before Trudeau sent his stormtroopers in because now Trudeau gets to say he took decisive action and ended the protests, claiming victory and gaining some prestige. He'll get to have his "mission accomplished" moment now. Depriving him of that should have been a key goal of the protest organizers. It's poor strategy to let it come to this.

Think of it like this: The_Donald beat the reddit admins by locking the forum and migrating to .win before the admins banned the subreddit. The admins then had to try and save face by banning a locked/inactive subreddit and looked stupid as a result. Really it was The_Donald who had the last word. Same logic here.