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One of the best things about Canada is we’ll never elect a Donald Trump (The Hill Times)

... Americans have always mythologized the presidency, cloaking the person in the White House in the aura of office.  

In their hand over the heart, star-spangled patriotism, there is great reverence for any president. The president is assumed to be all powerful. The president is always the good guy. And if the president says it, it’s automatically assumed to carry the weight of fact. To put it succinctly, in the U.S., the office sanctifies the occupant.

Canadians, by comparison, have not mythologized the Prime Minister’s Office. What does that mean? Respect, but not awe. Here, the office doesn’t sanctify the person. Here, we do not assume the PM is somebody because they have won the office. He or she is judged depending on how they perform in office.  

And behind this big difference in how Canadians and Americans see their top leaders is another huge factor in why this country will never have a Trump. Americans let their leaders get away with a lot, out of the mere fact that they have risen to the top. Canadians hold their leaders to account because they have the top job.  

No Canadian politician could say they grab women by the privates and get elected dog-catcher. No Canadian politician could call any citizen of the country “garbage,” as Trump has done, without experiencing a very rapid career path change. And no Canadian politician could mock a disabled person and spend one more day running the country ...

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