The Reset Gambit: Trudeau's Last Grasp At Woke Global Stardom

It’s become obvious that the only people still taking Justin Trudeau seriously occupy that tranche of Canadian urban foppery that sends him back to Parliament with healthy mandates. Oh, and his Cabinet colleagues.

The NYC magazine covers, the sycophantic profiles in liberal magazines, the Davos devotion… it has all disappeared like Skippy’s blacking cork and the cucumber in the cutoffs. The glam people who live to fluff have moved on to other passing fancies.

Canada’s PM is now defenceless against that part of the world that thinks a modicum of gravitas is required to run a nation. Without his shield he’s open to the jests of people like Tucker Carlson, perhaps the most significant network TV voice on the American right. Carlson’s FOXNews producers made him aware of Trudeau’s perky invocation of The Reset from Covid-19. 

Canada’s PM came across lighter than those Cheddar Whisps they sell at Costco. “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset,” Trudeau said back in September. “So this is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.” 

Translation: The Reset means Belgian bureaucrats, daffy climate cultists, media virtue pigs, grifters from the first-class lounge and positively furious feminists and race hustlers will be shaping Canada’s fortunes in a global Kumbaya. Paid for by Canadians who are not allowed at the reception in Biarritz.

There is no light going on over the PM’s dim head saying, “You know, exploiting a virus that’s killed millions might be a little… how do say, opportunist and vulgar?” Carlson was not flattering to the Boy Wonder. “Keep in mind, that’s not from QAnon, that is a head of state talking. And he’s not alone.” 

That was Carlson’s point. He sees the upcoming “unprecedented social controls on the population” that Trudeau and his ilk want.

Now before anyone takes Trudeau too literally, remember that he craves a permanent sinecure in Freeloaderstan when Canadians finally turf him out.  Consider this Reset riposte his job application for the UN version of Uriah Heap. But others around him in his cult-like following (hello David Koresh) do take The Reset seriously, and they have four more years to get under the hood and make this vehicle inert. 

The Climate Cultists have seen how Covid-19 brought suburban Karens and Neils to heel. They see how easy it is to leap from masks and mandatory lockdown to enforced energy standards for private homes and cancel-culture purges for the reluctant (see Pennsylvania’s mandatory masks-in-home edict). The sheeple will acquiesce— as they always do in Canada’s “go along to get along” culture.

In the U.S. the tumult will not be as subtle as made out by the Fresh Prince Of Rideau. The end of the election is the signal for The Reset to go whole hog in America.

That’s why the happiest people in America these days are the Woke zealots who pushed Joe Biden across the finish line like he was the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz. Wobbly-legged, Biden was the man searching for a brain as they sequestered him in his basement.  The whole game was to rag the puck while blaming Trump for Covid-19. Then the coast would be clear. 

No one was focussed on the zombie apocalypse waiting in the wings when Biden got the call. The legacy media made certain of that, burying the stories that tied the Biden family to a shakedown scheme in all the worst neighbourhoods: China, Ukraine, Iraq etc. Pushing out puff pieces on his ice-cream preferences. Invocations of Biden’s tragic past.

Now, with the last ghost-leg efforts by Trump to expose voting shenanigans playing out in the courts, the Reset Squad has begun emerging from the shadows. With Biden inaugurated there will be no check outside (possibly) the Senate on their progressive fever dreams of SCOTUS packing, Paris Accord and statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. There are armies of flacks and hangers-on ready to move their agenda into place. The whiff of power draws them like the proverbial moth to the flame. 

But this mob is different. Having marinated for four years in the juice of Hillary Clinton’s defeat and Donald Trump’s active disdain they feel a religious fervour about The Reset. This will not be a symbolic triumph. CNN’s Van Jones has called for a “moral” victory over Trump. No, the Critical Race Theory adherents want scalps to assuage their destinies denied.

Some might disguise a process this ruthless. But sated by their engineered triumph of harvested ballots, they have no reluctance to name names and doxx and promise retribution.  They’re bruiting ideas like a Trump Accountability Crusade in which the #AOC-plus3 crowd identify their favourite Trump officials and supporters for punishment. 

Here’s NJ congressman Bill Pascrell: “Tonight I’m calling for the eventual prosecution of donald trump and his enablers for their many crimes against the United States.” He’s not alone.

It’s easy to mock Trudeau’s clownish determination. But don’t be misled. He’s just holding the door open for the serious Reset mob. When they’re done it won’t matter what you think. So long as it’s what they think.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his next book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx