Canada

It's pretty bad. I was talking to someone who voted Cons yesterday and he was saying how Trump was actually doing the US economy a ton of good and that all the numbers from the stock markets to the bonds, trade numbers and all else were either temporary bumps or unimportant.

While it's true that stock numbers don't reflect the actual markets, they do reflect market confidence and has a high tendency to match what the market actually ends up being several months down the line.

I've come to realize that Cons rely on the fact that their supporters simply listen to their messages without paying any attention to other signs of what's going on, which is why they can flatly lie about whatever they want and people actually believe them. Because they don't want to internalize anything that suggests that they are wrong.

As someone who voted Liberals this time, I do strongly believe Carney is wrong and misguided on many points, but voted for him anyways. Because someone who is wrong a part of the time is far better than someone who is wrong most of the time. That a partially bad direction is better than someone who will run full steam ahead into the biggest ditch he can find while running over the average Canadian on the way.