I was a big admirer of his mother Barbara Frum, she was with the CBC, watched her every night on the National. Very sad to hear of her passing back in the 90's. Like lousing a family member. she was a great lady.
@@mfohr George Carlin championed free speech, something the 'new' left in both Canada and the USA want to control. Controlled free speech is censorship.
That explains why the left focused so hard on removing Aunt Jamima from the branding instead of removing the toxins from the syrup or the price of the product.
All of North America is our Manifest Destiny. We have the most powerful armed forces the world has ever seen for very good reason....our strength is decreed by God. Canada, Greenland, and Mexico will be a part of the USA by the end of this decade, with the annexation of Canada coming very soon. God is on our side.
This show is awesome amazing and powerful..thanks to the host and the brilliant David Frum he speaks truth to power always..don't stop bringing it David ❤..
I wish David would start his own you tube channel, or Substack or something, he’s so smart, I always enjoy listening to him. I’m a center left independent
Agreed. And the hostility to the idea only confirms the thought. (Former?) Marxist here, but Frum is far more interesting than the usual lefty homilies. Not to mention their sickening self-righteousness.
I am a big L /small l liberal but always listen intently to David Frum. His arguments are invariably compact and insightful. And I rely on thehub to showcase the conservative perspective free of bile and conspiracy. Great interview.
Since Tuesday I have been off balance. Thank you for giving me some thoughts that will help me to go forward with some possibility of a Positive world. I will strive to "be a blessing" to those I know. Betty Kabaker
@@Kim-lc3fv Our first woman prime minister was Jenny Shipley - who ousted PM Jim Bolger. She was right of centre. Then two left of centre women prime ministers, Helen Clark (the first woman who went through the election process) and Jacinda Ardern, also elected.
The CONMEN, like PT Barnum says, believe that there is a "Sucker Born Every Minute'. I see Trump as an aberration. He seems to be the SHADOW or the DARK HEART of AMERICA. This too will pass. Perhaps sooner than we realize. Trump's dementia is accelerating quickly. Just Disgusting Vance is the Billionaire's Choice for a Puppet President. He has no Charisma. And the disaster that awaits the American people will be shocking.
I think it went beyond inflation, it was a frustration with cost of living overall. Inflation was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Housing, education, healthcare and all with stagnate wages. The people feel that both parties are in the pocket of big business.
@@markrutledge5855 American "conservatives" will latch onto any perceived problem (even when it doesn't exist) and complain 25 hours a day, so as to avoid dealing with any real problem that touches every citizen. It has NEVER been about any of these fringe issues, and has ALWAYS been about political and economic power over everyone who doesn't look or think like them.
"Trump doesn't believe that there is mutual advantage to trade - there's a winner and there's a loser." That's also how he sees the truth. The truth isn't an impartial ideal, and it doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is who wins.
OK, but will the US win with what he is proposing? It seems most are saying no, the majority of economists say his tariffs are a bad idea. Either way we will see what happens.
Btw, “free markets” is a theorem; there is no such thing in the real world. Same with “limited government”. Both used as an excuse for the concentration of wealth and power.
David appears very confident in his prognosis of the next 4 years. Perhaps next time the host can ask him about his stance on 2003 invasion of Iraq (alleged weapons of mass destruction). He was afterall, a speech writer for George W Bush. How did that theory work out? David should be less strident in his prognostications given the immense blunder of his support of that disastrous campaign to bring democracy to the middle east. I'm not saying he will be wrong, I'm simply pointing out his track record. Before taking offense, I hope Mr.Frum recognizes that these are the hazards of being a public intellectual. Your predictions will be scrutinized in the future. Final note. With reference to David's comment about the upcoming corruption in the Trump#47 administration; what is his retrospective view on the Halliburton/KBR involvement in the reconstruction of Iraq post Saddam Hussein?
This is the part that makes me the most concerned. Trump is going to be horrible for the US, but our right-wing parties are going to take his victory as a cue to act the same way. And the same extremist right-wing ideologies are creeping up here.
David Frum should not go unchallenged when he equates Democrats being outraged by the slaughter in Gaza to being "pro-Hamas". It is not "pro-Hamas"; it is anti-genocide.
If Israel wanted to wipe out the Palestinians they'd be gone. The Palestinians are still here. The same can't be said of the Palestinians if the power were reversed.
First female Australian Prime Minister was from the left (Julia Gillard, who made a very famous speech addressed to sexists in parliament). We simultaneously had a female Governor-General, Governor of NSW and Lord Mayor of Sydney. It's the right that has traditionally had problems with women in Australian politics. On the right we've seen the rise of the "Teals" conservatives with interests in green politics, frequently women who would have no place with the more conservative parties (LIberal - National Party coalition).
I have very much enjoyed this conversation and I look forward to more being produced. As a Canadian I terrified of what is to come. I am seventy-seven and I wonder how this will affect my two teenage grandsons. I used to follow your mother Barbara.
I’m sorry but this perspective is such an insular, micro perspective. An international/macro perspective tells you that the USA is part of a broader “domino theory”. As South America and Latin America sees more of their countries lose democracy, it in inevitable that this would consume North America. With the obvious transmission mechanism being displaced people and emigration. How ironic that Americans oppose illegal immigrants fleeing their horrendous political and social situations. This story will be repeated (as it has time and time again); only next time it will be North Americans fleeing their homeland from a right-wing dictator.
The US has been interfering in South America for decades, and always in favour of right wing, dictatorial regimes. So it is now reaping what it has sowed. If Americans one day should find a new wall on their northern border, they have only their own imperialist, right wing policies to blame.
Not very likely. Freedom and a better life is encoded deeply within the blood of North Americans. Rather people will take up arms and depose the Billionaires who Bought this Election.
Frum is absolutely right on the transgender issue. I went to an ultrasound appointment earlier this year in Canada. I had never met the technician and she was highly agitated by the transgender issue.I asked if she had ever encountered such a person. She had not but she was convinced that it was a major danger in society.
... " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. " ~ Louis D. Brandeis
@@victorparks3219 Soo, what in the world you understand about trade!?? I believe that I had much more exposure to trade that you could understand in 200 years!!
Nice work guys. I'm not your core audience, but the clarity of David's work makes it easy tell whether I am listening to dogma, value statements, observations, or analysis. Frum is the easiest way for greens and human ecologists working to resolve the left-right gridlock that is taking down the biosphere to get a perspective on conservative thought.
I am a lifelong centre-lefty, so when I see foreign elections I always just knee-jerk support the centre-left option. However I have changed my mind on this after seeing the weakness of Scholz and Trudeau on Ukraine. From now on my support for any foreign election will be for the party most committed to agressively supporting the Western Alliance/NATO/AUKUS/The Quad etc and the rules based international liberal order. So given Trudeaus pathetic failure to spend appropriately on defence the last few years had me learning towards Polliviere, however I am now worried that he is getting more and more Trumpist so I am unsure if it is possible to support him just because he will bump up defence spending by 0.4% if that is not combined with a true commitment to the West and and an aggressive opposition to Orban/Putin/Trump etc
Great interview - FRUM knows his sheit. I hope somewhere in here he talks about how the STOCK MARKET IMPLDES WHEN TRADE AND ECONOMIES CAN NO LONGER GROW! HELLO!
David hit on my primary observation about what is behind the growing anti-women sentiment. The soft skills where women excel in the new economy. This will only be exacerbated with advancements in A.I. This bro-movement is almost as darwinian as it is reactionary.
A 'free market' is very desirable. Sadly, because we live in a secular world suffocating in moral relativism, the 'free market' has been corrupted by plutocrats and career bureaucrats. Unless this disease of broken moral character is fixed, things will only get worse.
It’s an honor to not be lumped in with a man who has faced so little accountability like Frum… a poster child of our impending ill preparedness in Asia. The Middle East catastrophe. WHY am I supposed to listen to somebody so antithetical to our future flourishing
people equate prices not going back down to inflation we are watching companies take advantage of the consumer, because their profits were way down during covid i remember when nixon tried to deal with this through price controls....didnt work
But the debt still expanding and prices are not down and wages are not up. We lose buying power and that is not getting better. And the jobs are not there. Biden is responsible.
@@raywhitehead730 Wages are outpacing inflation and you don’t want prices down because deflation is a disaster, you’ll have a spiraling recession. Rather, prices normalize by holding still as wages rise over time. As Frum points out, the inflation spike was the result of Trump’s disastrous Covid response, which had much more severe mortality rates than other countries and his stimulus in that period. The poster is correct - watch the “disastrous” Biden economy, which actually consists of 2.5% inflation, historically low unemployment, wage growth, strong economic growth, falling interest rates and record stock prices, suddenly and miraculously become the greatest economy of all time as soon as Trump takes office. He inherited a strong economy from Obama, handed Biden a shitshow as the only president ever to preside over a net job loss while driving the debt up by 7 trillion, then will inherit an economy correctly described today as the envy of the world
Canada will have to sacrifice the supply management system. Secondly, the payment exacted for trade with the U.S. will include an immediate increase of defense budget to 4% GDP with capabilities delivered in 2 years time and not 10-20 years time.
I disagree a bit about his take on environmental progress. Consumers have been able force utility companies to buy clean energy. This has resulted in the shutdown of coal fired power plants (e.g. Page, AZ.)
I cannot fathom why the Conservative movement in Canada would become pro-Russia. We have a northern border with Russia and Russia has serious ambitions in the north. An expansionist Russia will not be bothered by our borders any more than Russia's border with Ukraine.
@@tamhiker1 I wish that were true. Whether it is Russian and Chinese expansionism or climate change, I fear that too many people need to directly experience catastrophe before they wake up to the obvious threats facing them.
@professorakiba434 Because the "conservative" movement has shifted into a populist movement driven by lack of education, divisiveness, lies and propaganda (much of it from Russia) rather than by traditional conservative principles.
@@tamhiker1with global warming and the sea ice receding the Arctic will become a viable and unimaginable valuable shipping route, most of the route will be through Canadian waters , Russia will be working to change that.
Yes, I think Trudeau quietly stood firm with Trump, which is why after 18 long months of negotiation on NAFTA 2.0, Canada actually got a pretty good deal especially on dairy which Trump had promised to dismantle.
Alberta UCP party already embarking on its own project '25 playbook - authoritarian leader Daneille smith UCP pension manager, chief of Alberta Police, mayor of Edmonton and Calgary, dictate university research, private schools, private health , anti green energy projects, coal mining eastern slopes ... list goes on
Danielle is hated in Alberta for the destruction of Public Schools, and Health Care. She is going to be lucky not to be run out of town on a rail. She is a good example of a PUPPET of the controlling families who exert far too much control over Albertans.
David, how do you know that Trump’s tariff proposal isn’t an opening negotiation ploy? He can’t do it without Congress and would require 60!votes in the Senate.
Great questions great commentary. Keep picking insightful people like David Frum for your interviews. I am not a Conservative but I do realize Canadians better pull together to insulate the Canadian people from these stupid decisions. The Conservatives are closely intertwined with the Maga crowd and will have to change their tune rapidly. Trumpism will affect our bottom line severely. But. Canadians have lots of what the world needs unlike Americans at the moment.
The enthusiasm for Harris was off the charts. The red wave for Trump did not happen, he got the same number of votes as he did in 2020. That tells me that where Harris lost votes they did not go to Trump. It would be interesting for each polling place to list the number of rejected ballots and how many voters were purged from the rolls. So what happened to 10,000,000 more votes that went to Biden? That is the question and it needs to be answered!
In current counts that is now around 5M that turned out for Biden but failed to show up for Harris. Trump also lost votes against his 2020 total, but not to the same extent. His base is solid, the but Democratic voters are fickle and continue to foolishly use non-voting as some kind of protest. They protested Trump right into the Oval Office. In this consequential election, with everything on the line.....sitting it out was such an horrific mistake.
They stayed at home. They decided that they'd rather let a 2nd Trump administration happen, rather than vote for an African American woman. And they'll scream up and down "I didn't vote for this!" for the rest of the Trump term - be it 4 years or forevor.
What you said about asylum needs to be verified. You need to get accurate information regarding the number of petitions for asylum that are granted on a yearly basis. You should check information in the Department of Homeland Security/Immigration web page. You will find that only a very small number of petitions for asylum are granted per year.
I like his analysis but the Republican party has never tried to "soften the blow" of free trade for those impacted. No support for unions, no support for minimum wages and no support for labor laws.
It's something for which Britain is still angry at Thatcher. They knew they'd cause millions in unemployment, because that's what their policy was intended to do - so as to introduce freer markets. And yet they did so very little to ameliorate the shock they purposefully brought about (however well-intentioned). More, they left people without the capital to actually make new lives, if they ever could. Thatcher kept winning though.
The politics of respect. Is that even possible anymore. Voters in the US have clearly demonstrated they are not interest in respect. Getting that way here, too.
David Frum is one of the few conservative commentators that I listen to because his analysis is right on. We need more people like him, on all sides of the political spectrum, explaining politics to the masses so we can return to respectful dialogue.
A conservative? Like Mitt Romney maybe. Real conservatives are so past those RINO buffoons. He writes for the Atlantic so he’s obviously a Trump hating Democrat hack.
@@tracevicente Yep. Former speech writer for Bush. Son of one of our most famous female journalists (back when we had actual journalists). Doesn't matter. He chose a side and hit rock bottom in 2016. He is the same as Andrew Coyne writing for the Globe and Mail (Hammer and Sickle). A make believe 'conservative' that isn't one. He is just as irrelevant as Coyne.
Trump didn't say we will protect you if you do what we say. He said we will protect you if you do what you said, like Canada's promise to fund its share of the defence burden.
@@terrydanksI think we should be spending more on defence, but not in a way Trump would like. We should be closely watching our northern border and protecting Canadian territorial waters from claims by Russia and the U.S. We should not be allowing shipping through these areas unless other countries pay.
what are you talking about ..........4 billion humans are going to die as the planet get hotter every day for the next 200 years Who caused this.........look it up 85% of the CO2 emissions are form the USA and Europe Who the Fuck needs to think about a defence Burden ..we need to stop eradicating the human species.....think outside the program !
Excellent. That’s the way it should be. We should all strive to solve issues with a view to good POLICY. Not a view to good POLITICS. If someone needs to check in with their Party first - “to see what I’m supposed to think” - that’s a bad actor. Indeed, check in with our own families / friends : My conservative family used to stand against Protectionism. And against Russian totalitarianism. They’ve now been Trumpified. In favour of both. Just watch P Polievre in coming months. … A career professional politician (-another thing they used to be “against” -) will quickly do what’s profitable for him and for the media. He will suddenly be in favour of Protectionism. And against Ukraine (also against Taiwan, H Kong). Watch - he will start showing a soft spot for Hungary’s Victor Orban - champion of Republicans.
He's a registered Republican who was George W Bush's speech writer. Frum is right wing, but a classical liberal democratic in that whatever the choice or name, he will always favour voting, free markets, an independent judiciary, free press, legislatures, etc - Never Trump, always NATO
14:28 Trans-gender affects almost nobody DIRECTLY, but indirectly it has had a very wide sweep, e.g. the "cancellation" of anybody in any way questioning its tenets, the deeply oppressive language demands and self-censorship permeating universities, learned societies and even corporations making trans an issue at every turn. I think David greatly underestimates the significance of the impact of trans activists, who hijacked the gay rights movement once the gays got all that they had sought and could go off and live their lives.
What a ridiculous comment. The trans issue does not affect 99.999% of the population. Talking about it is not prohibited - we have the First Amendment.
@@awuma Frum, as a man, also doesn't understand the impact of what is basically a misogynist, sexual deviant ideology is having on women and children. Our sports, prisons, shelters, locker rooms, washrooms are being invaded. Children are being put on a lifetime of physically altering drugs and disfiguring surgeries. Gay children are being transitioned because they don't fall into someone's preconceived notion of gender acceptability. Our language is changing, not allowing women the right and dignity of self expression. Lesbians are called transphobic for wanting same-sex partners. David Frum, are these enough examples to show you that many, many people are affected by trans ideology?
The only thing that concerned me about a Trump victory was the US foreign policy change in relation to Ukraine. The Dems have lost the plot on every other issue.
Remember, "pro-Hamas" means the Democrats didn't sufficiently support Israel's genocide against the Palestinians. So if you question the erasure of the people and then resettlement of the land with Israelis, you are being "pro-Hamas." David is good on some issues, but like all the hawks from the National Post who fully supported the invasion of Iraq, his defense of Israel is completely uncritical and despicable.
Wrong. The disgraced Gen. John Kelly who was fired by Commander and Chief Trump lied about Trump saying this. Liar John Kelly should be stripped of his military pension.
So well reasoned. I agree with pretty much everything Frum said. It is interesting that most of the female political leaders who have reached the highest echelons are from the right: Thatcher (famously), May, Truss, Campbell, Merkel, Meloni.
I trust David’s point of view , unfortunately it’s worse than I had imagined. America deserves what they get because it was their majority vote. But unfortunately we share a border and it will now be like sharing a border with Venezuela not the good old USA 😢
Not pro hamas - that’s disingenuous. It is anti the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians and collective punishment. What hamas did on Oct 7 was abhorrent. Two things can be true at the same time.
As an American, I am truly disgusted with what my country has finally become. Our only hope now is Trump and the Republicans are too incompetent to pull it off.
@@theloniousm4337 “Human shields” is the handy excuse for bombing hospitals, schools, refugees camps, all protected under international law, but no real evidence is provided.
I was a big admirer of his mother Barbara Frum, she was with the CBC, watched her every night on the National. Very sad to hear of her passing back in the 90's. Like lousing a family member. she was a great lady.
Beautiful lady , loved her ..
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." George Carlin
The maestral Carlin!!
What inflation Frum????
@@mfohr George Carlin championed free speech, something the 'new' left in both Canada and the USA want to control.
Controlled free speech is censorship.
That explains why the left focused so hard on removing Aunt Jamima from the branding instead of removing the toxins from the syrup or the price of the product.
@@vger9186The image of Aunt Jemima was changed for the same reasons that there isn't a baseball team named the New York Jews
We absolutely will not give up our fresh water nor
The arctic!
All of North America is our Manifest Destiny. We have the most powerful armed forces the world has ever seen for very good reason....our strength is decreed by God. Canada, Greenland, and Mexico will be a part of the USA by the end of this decade, with the annexation of Canada coming very soon. God is on our side.
This show is awesome amazing and powerful..thanks to the host and the brilliant David Frum he speaks truth to power always..don't stop bringing it David ❤..
WE ARE ALREADY MAX TAX MAX TARRIF ON TRADE.
CANADA NEEDS TO STAND UP AGAINST U.S.❤
What's your solution?
Blame your government
That will be a waste of time and effort. We will own Canada within the next 4 years.
Thank you for a great conversation.
I wish David would start his own you tube channel, or Substack or something, he’s so smart, I always enjoy listening to him. I’m a center left independent
I so agree!🇨🇦
I think Frum is completely out of touch with 2024.
He's a war monger neocon tht supports your children fighting Isreals wars while taking your freedom of speech and guns away. He is Satan.
No just because he speaks well doesn’t mean his message is right
Agreed. And the hostility to the idea only confirms the thought. (Former?) Marxist here, but Frum is far more interesting than the usual lefty homilies. Not to mention their sickening self-righteousness.
I am a big L /small l liberal but always listen intently to David Frum. His arguments are invariably compact and insightful. And I rely on thehub to showcase the conservative perspective free of bile and conspiracy.
Great interview.
Sorry for your loss Mr. Frum. You are a fine, and sane commentator.
Since Tuesday I have been off balance. Thank you for giving me some thoughts that will help me to go forward with some possibility of a Positive world. I will strive to "be a blessing" to those I know. Betty Kabaker
Australia's first female PM, Julia Gillard, was left of center.
And Jacinda Arhern of New Zealand
@@Kim-lc3fv Our first woman prime minister was Jenny Shipley - who ousted PM Jim Bolger. She was right of centre. Then two left of centre women prime ministers, Helen Clark (the first woman who went through the election process) and Jacinda Ardern, also elected.
@@davidw4987 And what is the name of Mexican leader or president??! She is a woman too!
@@Bassey_NZ. Thanks. Well done, Kiwis !
Excellent interview! Thank You!!!
Thank you for making reference to Canada and the rest of the world...the big picture definitely clarifies things. Thanks David!
Bottom line is that many Americans love their conmen.
The CONMEN, like PT Barnum says, believe that there is a "Sucker Born Every Minute'. I see Trump as an aberration. He seems to be the SHADOW or the DARK HEART of AMERICA. This too will pass. Perhaps sooner than we realize. Trump's dementia is accelerating quickly. Just Disgusting Vance is the Billionaire's Choice for a Puppet President. He has no Charisma. And the disaster that awaits the American people will be shocking.
Not that perhaps but they love an entertainer, and sticking it to some imaginary class of elites. It is juvenile, but powerful.
"voters don't care about issues, they care about affect." - That comes from Newt Gingrich.
I think it went beyond inflation, it was a frustration with cost of living overall. Inflation was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Housing, education, healthcare and all with stagnate wages. The people feel that both parties are in the pocket of big business.
How about crime, DEI, the woke agenda, the one-side media coverage. And of course, immigration.
This American woman thinks Trump is the answer to her economic worries:
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The crime you see or don't. see@markrutledge5855
@@markrutledge5855 American "conservatives" will latch onto any perceived problem (even when it doesn't exist) and complain 25 hours a day, so as to avoid dealing with any real problem that touches every citizen. It has NEVER been about any of these fringe issues, and has ALWAYS been about political and economic power over everyone who doesn't look or think like them.
@markrutledge5855 Matlocks's not real, Bubba. None of those other things, either. And crime is down - but it peaked under Trump.
"Trump doesn't believe that there is mutual advantage to trade - there's a winner and there's a loser." That's also how he sees the truth. The truth isn't an impartial ideal, and it doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is who wins.
OK, but will the US win with what he is proposing? It seems most are saying no, the majority of economists say his tariffs are a bad idea. Either way we will see what happens.
@@garufia It all depends on what goes up in price ... some will be hit worse than others
@@bobbart4198 Yes, Prices are high enough. Gas is the key to affecting many prices as well. Transport, etc.
@@bobbart4198Won’t pretty much everything go up in price ?
Earthjustice01: Great insight into the trumpian non-concept of truth.
Thanks David Frum for being bang on with regards to Ukraine and Taiwan.!!!!!
Incredibly inciteful comments and perspectives!
insightful
Btw, “free markets” is a theorem; there is no such thing in the real world. Same with “limited government”. Both used as an excuse for the concentration of wealth and power.
CORRECT! BUT IT LOOKS LIKE ITS WORKING.
Ppl are motivated by dignity. 🙏🏾
OUTSTANDING AND EXCELLENT.
I always enjoy listening to Mr. Frum. .Please start your own podcast…🇨🇦🇨🇦👏👏🍁🇨🇦
David appears very confident in his prognosis of the next 4 years. Perhaps next time the host can ask him about his stance on 2003 invasion of Iraq (alleged weapons of mass destruction). He was afterall, a speech writer for George W Bush. How did that theory work out? David should be less strident in his prognostications given the immense blunder of his support of that disastrous campaign to bring democracy to the middle east. I'm not saying he will be wrong, I'm simply pointing out his track record. Before taking offense, I hope Mr.Frum recognizes that these are the hazards of being a public intellectual. Your predictions will be scrutinized in the future.
Final note. With reference to David's comment about the upcoming corruption in the Trump#47 administration; what is his retrospective view on the Halliburton/KBR involvement in the reconstruction of Iraq post Saddam Hussein?
"Whatabout? Whatabout? Whatabout?"
@@jakebarnes28 hey dummy, whatabout engaging with his argument instead of just displaying your absolute insufferable idiocy?
My takeaway is you've not heard anything from Frum in twenty years. As he has noted himself, he was a speechwriter not President.
Very well said.
I see you have one detractor who does not believe in historical accountability or reputation.
Well said .
I don't see the CPC becoming any more respectful. PP and CPC members will simply be empowered now to double down on their nasty, infantile behaviour.
This is the part that makes me the most concerned. Trump is going to be horrible for the US, but our right-wing parties are going to take his victory as a cue to act the same way. And the same extremist right-wing ideologies are creeping up here.
Versus Trudeau and his incompetent corrupt cabal? Seriously?
David Frum should not go unchallenged when he equates Democrats being outraged by the slaughter in Gaza to being "pro-Hamas". It is not "pro-Hamas"; it is anti-genocide.
You reveal your bias when you use terms like "genocide". There is no genocide. War crimes? maybe. But no genocide.
If Israel wanted to wipe out the Palestinians they'd be gone. The Palestinians are still here. The same can't be said of the Palestinians if the power were reversed.
he didn't do that ("equate democrats.....")
@@jakebarnes28 So I guess Adolph didn't want to wipe out the Jews because some were still there in 1944.
Only if you believe that what’s happening in Gaza is actually genocide.
First female Australian Prime Minister was from the left (Julia Gillard, who made a very famous speech addressed to sexists in parliament). We simultaneously had a female Governor-General, Governor of NSW and Lord Mayor of Sydney. It's the right that has traditionally had problems with women in Australian politics.
On the right we've seen the rise of the "Teals" conservatives with interests in green politics, frequently women who would have no place with the more conservative parties (LIberal - National Party coalition).
Thank you for this clarity. Always grateful for what you have to convey!
As a Canadian am terrified.
As a Californian, I am extremely beyond terrified.
@@kimscioloro As a denizen of a deep red state, I am scared shitless (and no laxative will help!)
Remember you have friends and trading partners in other Commonwealth countries and in Asia.
Frum is always insightful and worth the time. Thanks.
I have very much enjoyed this conversation and I look forward to more being produced. As a Canadian I terrified of what is to come. I am seventy-seven and I wonder how this will affect my two teenage grandsons. I used to follow your mother Barbara.
"important and unchangeable" like when the oligarchs and US policies combine to create unliveable circumstances for disenfranchised people?
I’m sorry but this perspective is such an insular, micro perspective. An international/macro perspective tells you that the USA is part of a broader “domino theory”. As South America and Latin America sees more of their countries lose democracy, it in inevitable that this would consume North America. With the obvious transmission mechanism being displaced people and emigration. How ironic that Americans oppose illegal immigrants fleeing their horrendous political and social situations. This story will be repeated (as it has time and time again); only next time it will be North Americans fleeing their homeland from a right-wing dictator.
The US has been interfering in South America for decades, and always in favour of right wing, dictatorial regimes. So it is now reaping what it has sowed. If Americans one day should find a new wall on their northern border, they have only their own imperialist, right wing policies to blame.
Hopefully you'll be first out the gate.
Not very likely. Freedom and a better life is encoded deeply within the blood of North Americans. Rather people will take up arms and depose the Billionaires who Bought this Election.
@@mns8732 I'm far too smart to live in a country like the USA. I won't be going anywhere !
thank you
You expect Polly to be respectful?! You’re dreaming!!
Frum is absolutely right on the transgender issue. I went to an ultrasound appointment earlier this year in Canada. I had never met the technician and she was highly agitated by the transgender issue.I asked if she had ever encountered such a person. She had not but she was convinced that it was a major danger in society.
Please keep David Frum on your podcast. I think he knows what he is talking about.
Great discussion.
... " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. " ~ Louis D. Brandeis
Always interesting to hear what Frum has to say.
DF is so reasonable, always like listening to his perspective.
Canada was fine before Mulroneys free trade.
Mulroney was elected in a landslide much bigger than Trump's either time
@@victorparks3219 Soo, what in the world you understand about trade!?? I believe that I had much more exposure to trade that you could understand in 200 years!!
We no longer live in the 1950’s my friend.
Oh yeah, we’d be in so much better shape. 🙄
Just to put things in context, the September 2024 inflation rate in Canada was 1.6%
What a great interview!
David is always a fascinating interview. Thanks.
Hey Sean .. do you ever interview women politics and policy analysts?
Yes, in the US an incoming Dem is always handed a slammed economy. Biden & Obama both were faced with handling it all...
Is there room for the creation of a moderate or centrist party in the United States???
Good analysis
Nice work guys. I'm not your core audience, but the clarity of David's work makes it easy tell whether I am listening to dogma, value statements, observations, or analysis. Frum is the easiest way for greens and human ecologists working to resolve the left-right gridlock that is taking down the biosphere to get a perspective on conservative thought.
I am a lifelong centre-lefty, so when I see foreign elections I always just knee-jerk support the centre-left option. However I have changed my mind on this after seeing the weakness of Scholz and Trudeau on Ukraine. From now on my support for any foreign election will be for the party most committed to agressively supporting the Western Alliance/NATO/AUKUS/The Quad etc and the rules based international liberal order. So given Trudeaus pathetic failure to spend appropriately on defence the last few years had me learning towards Polliviere, however I am now worried that he is getting more and more Trumpist so I am unsure if it is possible to support him just because he will bump up defence spending by 0.4% if that is not combined with a true commitment to the West and and an aggressive opposition to Orban/Putin/Trump etc
Great interview - FRUM knows his sheit. I hope somewhere in here he talks about how the STOCK MARKET IMPLDES WHEN TRADE AND ECONOMIES CAN NO LONGER GROW! HELLO!
David hit on my primary observation about what is behind the growing anti-women sentiment. The soft skills where women excel in the new economy. This will only be exacerbated with advancements in A.I. This bro-movement is almost as darwinian as it is reactionary.
Look up how many female leaders Muslim countries have had
“ criminals should be in jail”….right, Trump should be in jail
lol I just saw a Canadian official ,” uh, we uh can’t bring as many of you immigrants in.
There is no such thing as a free market. Stop using those words
A 'free market' is very desirable.
Sadly, because we live in a secular world suffocating in moral relativism, the 'free market' has been corrupted by plutocrats and career bureaucrats.
Unless this disease of broken moral character is fixed, things will only get worse.
@@ryleighloughty3307 This idea you have of a true free market is no different than a communist dreaming up "true communism"
@@ryleighloughty3307 are you suggesting that we had free markets when the church ran things?
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No.
It’s an honor to not be lumped in with a man who has faced so little accountability like Frum… a poster child of our impending ill preparedness in Asia. The Middle East catastrophe. WHY am I supposed to listen to somebody so antithetical to our future flourishing
Hi what does state control posture i haven't heard that before
Disinflation or deflation?
Inflation is already under control. Watch Trump take credit for what's already been accomplished.
people equate prices not going back down to inflation
we are watching companies take advantage of the consumer, because their profits were way down during covid
i remember when nixon tried to deal with this through price controls....didnt work
Thats how politics goes. Tough luck .
But the debt still expanding and prices are not down and wages are not up. We lose buying power and that is not getting better. And the jobs are not there. Biden is responsible.
Inflation was near zero When Biden became president.
@@raywhitehead730 Wages are outpacing inflation and you don’t want prices down because deflation is a disaster, you’ll have a spiraling recession. Rather, prices normalize by holding still as wages rise over time. As Frum points out, the inflation spike was the result of Trump’s disastrous Covid response, which had much more severe mortality rates than other countries and his stimulus in that period. The poster is correct - watch the “disastrous” Biden economy, which actually consists of 2.5% inflation, historically low unemployment, wage growth, strong economic growth, falling interest rates and record stock prices, suddenly and miraculously become the greatest economy of all time as soon as Trump takes office. He inherited a strong economy from Obama, handed Biden a shitshow as the only president ever to preside over a net job loss while driving the debt up by 7 trillion, then will inherit an economy correctly described today as the envy of the world
I went to see David Frum in August. He was pretty adamant in proclaiming a Harris win. I don't think he has the pulse of the American people.
Actually, I think he does the vast majority of political pundits were all calling for a blue wave...
David Frum has been wrong about basically everything ever.
Even Allan Lichtman who has been right about almost every election he’s predicted, was wrong about a Harris win.
@@shiorisaitou4846…for instance?
@@backlightsnew lol lichtman is a useful doofus, just like Frum
Canada will have to sacrifice the supply management system. Secondly, the payment exacted for trade with the U.S. will include an immediate increase of defense budget to 4% GDP with capabilities delivered in 2 years time and not 10-20 years time.
Never did like this guy. Why did he not mention the impact of the threat of tariffs on say our lumber industry?
Why not explain why you don’t like him to start with, and then we can talk.
I disagree a bit about his take on environmental progress. Consumers have been able force utility companies to buy clean energy. This has resulted in the shutdown of coal fired power plants (e.g. Page, AZ.)
Does he really thing the average Poillievre supporter is ‘absorbing pro-Russian media’?
Yes! The amount of outright HATRED of Justin Trudeau constantly being spun on social media is proof of that.
@ nonsense. Hatred of JT does not come from Russia. I loathe both JT and Putin.
He's right, they are. Disguised as "news" in social media and on Faux News
Good points made
Half way through the video, and there's no indication there will be an answer to the thumbnail. Good click bait.
I cannot fathom why the Conservative movement in Canada would become pro-Russia. We have a northern border with Russia and Russia has serious ambitions in the north. An expansionist Russia will not be bothered by our borders any more than Russia's border with Ukraine.
@@tamhiker1until Russia and China (who has no border issue) move into the Arctic. Don’t be so stupid. This was one issue where Harper nailed it.
@@tamhiker1 I wish that were true. Whether it is Russian and Chinese expansionism or climate change, I fear that too many people need to directly experience catastrophe before they wake up to the obvious threats facing them.
@professorakiba434 Because the "conservative" movement has shifted into a populist movement driven by lack of education, divisiveness, lies and propaganda (much of it from Russia) rather than by traditional conservative principles.
@@tamhiker1with global warming and the sea ice receding the Arctic will become a viable and unimaginable valuable shipping route, most of the route will be through Canadian waters , Russia will be working to change that.
The Conservative party is not pro Russia, that's Liberal scare mongering.
Get rid of Trudeau and grovel , Poilievre should be good at that .
Yes, I think Trudeau quietly stood firm with Trump, which is why after 18 long months of negotiation on NAFTA 2.0, Canada actually got a pretty good deal especially on dairy which Trump had promised to dismantle.
Alberta UCP party already embarking on its own project '25 playbook - authoritarian leader Daneille smith UCP pension manager, chief of Alberta Police, mayor of Edmonton and Calgary, dictate university research, private schools, private health , anti green energy projects, coal mining eastern slopes ... list goes on
Danielle is hated in Alberta for the destruction of Public Schools, and Health Care. She is going to be lucky not to be run out of town on a rail. She is a good example of a PUPPET of the controlling families who exert far too much control over Albertans.
David, how do you know that Trump’s tariff proposal isn’t an opening negotiation ploy? He can’t do it without Congress and would require 60!votes in the Senate.
You are forgetting the the steel and aluminium tariffs he applied to Canada last time without resort to senate (national security).
Great questions great commentary. Keep picking insightful people like David Frum for your interviews. I am not a Conservative but I do realize Canadians better pull together to insulate the Canadian people from these stupid decisions. The Conservatives are closely intertwined with the Maga crowd and will have to change their tune rapidly. Trumpism will affect our bottom line severely. But. Canadians have lots of what the world needs unlike Americans at the moment.
This election was blood sport for the MAGA base.
Give them a couple of years, there just getting warmed up!
Trump might have David on his list. At least he will enjoy safety in Canada.
The enthusiasm for Harris was off the charts. The red wave for Trump did not happen, he got the same number of votes as he did in 2020. That tells me that where Harris lost votes they did not go to Trump. It would be interesting for each polling place to list the number of rejected ballots and how many voters were purged from the rolls. So what happened to 10,000,000 more votes that went to Biden? That is the question and it needs to be answered!
The knowledge of this is spreading quickly over the past few days. Americans are not UNITED at the moment. Or for the foreseeable future.
In current counts that is now around 5M that turned out for Biden but failed to show up for Harris. Trump also lost votes against his 2020 total, but not to the same extent. His base is solid, the but Democratic voters are fickle and continue to foolishly use non-voting as some kind of protest. They protested Trump right into the Oval Office. In this consequential election, with everything on the line.....sitting it out was such an horrific mistake.
They stayed at home. They decided that they'd rather let a 2nd Trump administration happen, rather than vote for an African American woman.
And they'll scream up and down "I didn't vote for this!" for the rest of the Trump term - be it 4 years or forevor.
With respect to the green energy thing, Canada doesn't have the most uranium ore in the world but it has the best, how's that gonna play out?
What you said about asylum needs to be verified. You need to get accurate information regarding the number of petitions for asylum that are granted on a yearly basis. You should check information in the Department of Homeland Security/Immigration web page. You will find that only a very small number of petitions for asylum are granted per year.
What a mind - wonderful. I'm sending this around and calling it David Frum talks TRUMP THINK.
I like his analysis but the Republican party has never tried to "soften the blow" of free trade for those impacted. No support for unions, no support for minimum wages and no support for labor laws.
It's something for which Britain is still angry at Thatcher. They knew they'd cause millions in unemployment, because that's what their policy was intended to do - so as to introduce freer markets. And yet they did so very little to ameliorate the shock they purposefully brought about (however well-intentioned). More, they left people without the capital to actually make new lives, if they ever could. Thatcher kept winning though.
The politics of respect. Is that even possible anymore. Voters in the US have clearly demonstrated they are not interest in respect. Getting that way here, too.
Exactly, it's about self interest, if not racism, misogyny, and outright hate and cruelty.
Forget about orthodoxy, Where is your pension fund invested?
i enjoy listening to opions that are different than my own two things can be right at the same time . open mind closed mind you pick
Sorry David, the first woman to lead a major Canadian party was not a conservative but a a socialist, Audrey McLaughlin.
I think he said leader of a country, not a party, Kim Campbell PM for a short time.
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@@mrzee4862 Sorry.
The devil is in the details.
#ffs …Kamala was a hopeless candidate.
That’s it.
Liberals voted for the first black president and will if given the chance, again, vote for the first woman president long before a conservative woman.
David, dont sleep on BC cherries, BC peaches, BC apples!
David Frum is one of the few conservative commentators that I listen to because his analysis is right on. We need more people like him, on all sides of the political spectrum, explaining politics to the masses so we can return to respectful dialogue.
A conservative? Like Mitt Romney maybe. Real conservatives are so past those RINO buffoons. He writes for the Atlantic so he’s obviously a Trump hating Democrat hack.
Conservative? 🤣
I agree about the expertise of David Frum I make sure I tune to him, his analysis is right on ...........an American living in Canada.
@@lib556do you know who David has worked for? Yikes.
@@tracevicente Yep. Former speech writer for Bush. Son of one of our most famous female journalists (back when we had actual journalists). Doesn't matter. He chose a side and hit rock bottom in 2016. He is the same as Andrew Coyne writing for the Globe and Mail (Hammer and Sickle). A make believe 'conservative' that isn't one. He is just as irrelevant as Coyne.
Trump didn't say we will protect you if you do what we say. He said we will protect you if you do what you said, like Canada's promise to fund its share of the defence burden.
The only thing Trump ever did that I approve of is his taking Canada to task for its abysmal record on defense spending.
@@terrydanksI think we should be spending more on defence, but not in a way Trump would like. We should be closely watching our northern border and protecting Canadian territorial waters from claims by Russia and the U.S. We should not be allowing shipping through these areas unless other countries pay.
Trump won Bigly. And so will Pierre. FJT
what are you talking about ..........4 billion humans are going to die as the planet get hotter every day for the next 200 years
Who caused this.........look it up 85% of the CO2 emissions are form the USA and Europe
Who the Fuck needs to think about a defence Burden ..we need to stop eradicating the human species.....think outside the program !
I’ve listened to Mr. Frum for years. I cannot figure out what his political leaning is. ]
No surprise there
He’s on the lying side.
His political leaning is 'Disgusting'.
Excellent. That’s the way it should be.
We should all strive to solve issues with a view to good POLICY.
Not a view to good POLITICS.
If someone needs to check in with their Party first - “to see what I’m supposed to think” - that’s a bad actor.
Indeed, check in with our own families / friends :
My conservative family used to stand against Protectionism. And against Russian totalitarianism.
They’ve now been Trumpified. In favour of both.
Just watch P Polievre in coming months. …
A career professional politician (-another thing they used to be “against” -) will quickly do what’s profitable for him and for the media. He will suddenly be in favour of Protectionism. And against Ukraine (also against Taiwan, H Kong).
Watch - he will start showing a soft spot for Hungary’s Victor Orban - champion of Republicans.
He's a registered Republican who was George W Bush's speech writer. Frum is right wing, but a classical liberal democratic in that whatever the choice or name, he will always favour voting, free markets, an independent judiciary, free press, legislatures, etc - Never Trump, always NATO
14:28 Trans-gender affects almost nobody DIRECTLY, but indirectly it has had a very wide sweep, e.g. the "cancellation" of anybody in any way questioning its tenets, the deeply oppressive language demands and self-censorship permeating universities, learned societies and even corporations making trans an issue at every turn. I think David greatly underestimates the significance of the impact of trans activists, who hijacked the gay rights movement once the gays got all that they had sought and could go off and live their lives.
triggered :D
Nope....your a Karen , and have no mental flexibility ....nobody is making you suck anything you don't want to....fool !
What a ridiculous comment. The trans issue does not affect 99.999% of the population. Talking about it is not prohibited - we have the First Amendment.
@@awuma Frum, as a man, also doesn't understand the impact of what is basically a misogynist, sexual deviant ideology is having on women and children. Our sports, prisons, shelters, locker rooms, washrooms are being invaded. Children are being put on a lifetime of physically altering drugs and disfiguring surgeries. Gay children are being transitioned because they don't fall into someone's preconceived notion of gender acceptability. Our language is changing, not allowing women the right and dignity of self expression. Lesbians are called transphobic for wanting same-sex partners. David Frum, are these enough examples to show you that many, many people are affected by trans ideology?
It doesn't affect you - unless you can't find a way to mind your own business. Their "tenets" are of no concern to you.
The Mexican government will be more aligned with Trump? This surely can’t be right.
I think he said it better suited the state-control posture of Mexican gov.
The only thing that concerned me about a Trump victory was the US foreign policy change in relation to Ukraine. The Dems have lost the plot on every other issue.
Remember, "pro-Hamas" means the Democrats didn't sufficiently support Israel's genocide against the Palestinians. So if you question the erasure of the people and then resettlement of the land with Israelis, you are being "pro-Hamas." David is good on some issues, but like all the hawks from the National Post who fully supported the invasion of Iraq, his defense of Israel is completely uncritical and despicable.
Tomorrow is "Veterans Day". Shouldn't it be changed to "Suckers and Losers Day" in honor of Donald Trump?
Wrong. The disgraced Gen. John Kelly who was fired by Commander and Chief Trump lied about Trump saying this. Liar John Kelly should be stripped of his military pension.
I think he has not said one thing that I can agree with.
So well reasoned. I agree with pretty much everything Frum said. It is interesting that most of the female political leaders who have reached the highest echelons are from the right: Thatcher (famously), May, Truss, Campbell, Merkel, Meloni.
I trust David’s point of view , unfortunately it’s worse than I had imagined. America deserves what they get because it was their majority vote. But unfortunately we share a border and it will now be like sharing a border with Venezuela not the good old USA 😢
Not pro hamas - that’s disingenuous. It is anti the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians and collective punishment. What hamas did on Oct 7 was abhorrent. Two things can be true at the same time.
As an American, I am truly disgusted with what my country has finally become. Our only hope now is Trump and the Republicans are too incompetent to pull it off.
Did you happen to notice that Bernie Sanders was re-elected? Maybe campaigning with Liz Cheney wasn't the direction the voters wanted to follow.
They focused on the wrong demographic. Unfortunately.
So many nervous russian bots pooping their pants
Is being concerned about Palestinian children to be pro-Hamas?
Blaming Israel when Hamas uses innocent citizens as human shields is pro-Hamas. Also ignoring what started this mess is pro-Hamas.
@@theloniousm4337 The "mess" started in 1948. Look up the massacre of Deir Yassin.
It certainly could be. It has the ring of "white lives matter" to it, don't you think?
@@theloniousm4337 “Human shields” is the handy excuse for bombing hospitals, schools, refugees camps, all protected under international law, but no real evidence is provided.
@@theloniousm4337and what about all the actual evidence coming out of IDF using Palestinian human shields?