I understand that the movement of leopards may be described as low-to-the-ground crawling, but I would think the consequences of siding with hatred would be rather obvious.

Ah, dear reader, here lies the tender meat:

Yet Bergman, who is endorsed by Trump in an upcoming contested primary, has been virtually silent on the new tariffs and their blowback in local communities, even as he’s prodded to speak out by many of his constituents. The only references to Sault Ste. Marie in the news items on his website during Trump’s second term are a mention of an infrastructure project and a February 2025 letter to the president about a purported member of a Venezuelan gang crossing the border.

Ah, yes, there was the story of a foreigner with bad intent, perhaps of a darker skin pigmentation, crossing the border.

Purportedly.

But let’s hear from an academic on why this Trump-supporting leader of a Michigan community is having his face eaten. Perhaps not just his face, but also those of other voters in his area who similarly aligned themselves with hatred:

“What Canadians have done, of course, is they’re boycotting the U.S.,” said Michael Broadway, a geographer and professor emeritus at Northern Michigan University who has researched the travel trends (and joined the bridge walk). Ordinary people can only do so much about federal politics, he said, “but what they can do is they can vote with their feet.”