Commentary Dear Freedom Convoy: It’s time to go home. Declare victory and withdraw from the Heart of Darkness. The protest is over. And it worked. I know, I know. Justin Trudeau is still prime minister and still annoying. But seriously, think about what might have been done and what was instead. A lot could have gone wrong. The protest could have been dominated by people who were bigoted, unruly, or both, and wrought their cause lasting harm. Instead, there were a couple of isolated incidents, quickly repudiated, not repeated, and blown out of proportion by critics who embarrassed themselves by calling a flag and a sign on a Terry Fox statue desecration, or claiming a swastika scrawled on a flag meant the Nuremberg Rally, not a few overheated people thinking Trudeau is a fascist, and so on. One prominent person not inherently friendly to you tweeted Jan. 31: “No physical …
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