POLITICS: Justin Trudeau’s resignation proves that woke is broke

Adieu to the wokest man to ever wear blackface.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose Liberal Party is being walloped in the polls, announced Monday that he’s calling it quits.

“It’s time for the temperature to come down, for the people to have a fresh start in parliament, to be able to navigate through these complex times.” the beleaguered 53-year-old said.

But Trudeau has been the very menace messing with the nation’s thermostat — cranking it up to unsustainable, stifling temps.

Throughout his nearly decade-long tenure, he abandoned true liberalism to become the standard bearer for progressive excesses: an overzealous champion of identity politics, DEI, government overreach and censorship.

His immigration policies have opened borders to record-breaking floods of people from other countries — overwhelming government resources, creating a housing crisis where apartments in Toronto can cost more than even those in NYC, driving down the job market, and stretching the healthcare system to the brink.

It’s also fueled widespread discontent among Canadians who feel like they have been left behind in favor of newcomers. Before a panicked Trudeau tried stemming the tide in the past few months, Indian immigration to Canada rose by 326% between 2013 and 2023, according to the National Foundation for American Policy.

Not that he didn’t entertain us sensible Southern neighbors, who marveled over his performative land acknowledgements, LBGT alphabet soups and atonement. He was always apologizing to some marginalized group for something.

And in the process, Trudeau became a parody. Like in 2021, when he stumbled over the nonsensical acronym “LGBTQ2+.”

“I will never apologize for standing up for LGDP, LGT, LBT,” he says in the hilarious clip. Hey, even he didn’t know what the hell any of it meant.

But the virtue-signal poster boy, who worshiped cultural sensitivity above all else, also put up hall of fame-worthy black face numbers. After three separate and very inconvenient photos emerged of him in black-face or brown-face makeup— one from his high-school talent show, another from a few years later, and one of him at an Arabian Nights party when he was 29 — he seemed to contract amnesia.

“I am wary of being definitive about this because of the recent pictures that came out, I had not remembered,” Trudeau said.

Who among us?

It was his 2000 eulogy of his father, former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, that turned the one-time teacher into his country’s great political hope. In breathy tones, he spoke about his dad taking him to the North Pole as a child and imparting wisdom about foundational liberal values.

“Having opinions that are different from those of another does not preclude one being deserving of respect as an individual,” he said in front of world leaders. “Because simple tolerance, mere tolerance is not enough. We need genuine and deep respect for each and every human being, notwithstanding their thought, their values, their origins. That’s my father demanded of his sons.”

Years later, those words proved mere hot air.

Trudeau and his now ex-wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, posed for Vogue in 2015 and the article quoted a Canadian reporter saying, “This is our Camelot.” Gag. Two years later, he covered Rolling Stone, which posed the question, “Why can’t he be our president?”

Thank the lord for our northern border.

Trudeau was emboldened by the Covid pandemic, imposing draconian and controlling measures.

Much of that came to a head in January 2022, when a “Freedom Convoy” of truckers descended upon Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates.

The PM did not not hear them nor did he respect their views. Instead, he demonized them, smeared them as racists despite there being thousands of protesters of all ethnicities.

He then used Canada’s Emergencies Act to freeze the truckers’ bank accounts. So much for tolerance.

Ultimately, a federal judge said Trudeau’s actions were unjustified.

But the message was chilling: Dissent will be crushed with the full power of the governnent.

Canadians, like Americans are tapped out and sick. They’re waking up and saying no more.

(Maybe he could have earned some goodwill if a Canadian team ended a decades-long drought and brought home the Stanley Cup.)

Justin Trudeau is the embodiment of wokeness run amok — a movement that is, thankfully, moving out as Western countries like Italy, Germany, Austria, Finland and, yes, the US are shifting right. Good riddance.