16 Mar 2020
The Hannon Times ran an opinion piece today written by Geoffrey Stevens, slugged "Canada, U.S. responses reveals strengths and ability of our elected leaders." Of course, it contrasted Trump's performance highly unfavorably in part because Stevens hates Trump and emotion colors perception. The paper's editorial of today was slugged, "COVID-19 could end Trump 2020." Guess what they're hoping for.
One expects that as a person gets older, they get wiser. Aging journalists don’t get wiser, they moulder.
Take the case of Geoffrey Stevens, once head shed at Canada’s national fish wrap and who now fills his time as an indoctrinator at Moo U. Stevens once loved Trudeau père and has since transferred that love to Trudeau fils. Stevens hates Trump. You would think that strong passions would be tempered by the weight of experience, but no. Stevens has to place a big wet kiss on young Justin’s backside just to show spite for Trump.
Stevens holds that Canada’s response to the coronavirus has been splendid, particularly in comparison to that disastrous Trump (who has many character flaws.) If it weren’t for an early gaffe by a Conservative named Doug Ford, Canada’s response would be nearly perfect. The “unflappable” Chrystia Freeland is in charge, along with a new “rising star” Patty Hadju, and they have been “calm and reassuring” and other nausea-inducing blather.
Meanwhile, young Justin acted heroically by voluntarily placing himself in self-isolation – with his wife. Heroic Justin runs and hides from the questioning and the criticism and the work, and leaves the management to his capable women subordinates. This is the great example that Stevens compares favorably to Trump, who acted early and is in the trenches every day fighting the crisis in all its manifold aspects, running the country, and coping with rising panic.
The editors at the Hannon Times are battling their own mental acuity crisis. They’re hoping Trump loses the next election on the basis of his alleged mishandling of the Covid crisis. If they hadn’t dozed during the debate on Sunday, they would have seen why even CNN pronounced Trump a winner in the debate and both debaters as losers. The Democrat party is choosing its candidate between socialism and senility. The socialist would tackle the crisis through a time-consuming and rancorous revolution of the America health insurance system. The senile guy would do everything Trump is doing, except it would be a Democrat doing it.
In a few weeks, the panic will have spent itself and sheer necessity will force society to begin resuming its normal routine. The levels of infection will peak, and the robust American economic will shake itself awake. The stock market will climb rapidly, and in the third quarter will give the sense of being healthy again. Just when the America election rolls around! And even if this sunny scenario doesn’t play out, the American people will have to choose between a tough-minded, accomplished, and capable leader who is not afraid to kick ass and take names, or an angry, incoherent guy who doesn’t always know where he is, but he sure wants to take your guns away.
With aging journos, it isn’t ‘older is wiser,’ it’s older and Wiser’s.
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For non-Canadian readers: The Globe and Mail calls itself, "Canada's national newspaper," Chrystia Freeland is Canada's Deputy Prime Minister, and Patty Hadju a member of the Trudeau cabinet; Wiser's is Canada's oldest brand of whiskey. Moo U. refers to the University of Guelph, which started out as an agricultural college.
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