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Trump’s not admitting defeat. He’s complaining about abuse by process. He’s worried that the special counsel would suck up all of the oxygen in the room and make it difficult to proceed with his mandate. And he has been proven largely right.

It was always an absurd idea in the first place that Trump was in serious collusion with Russia to undermine American democracy. But it was an argument that the Democrats desperately clung to as their way of rationalizing how Hillary Clinton lost. The Mueller probe meant they didn’t have to come to terms with the fact Trump won fair and square, but could instead spend four years arguing his presidency was inauthentic.

Could we see something similar happen here in Canada? If Andrew Scheer becomes prime minister in October, will the Liberals or the broader progressive movement and their like-minded allies in the media attempt to perpetuate a similar fraud and find some cheap excuse to delegitimize his government?

Some of the issues the Liberals have been obsessed with in recent months suggest they may be thinking along these lines. Like how they go on and on about “disinformation,” which can be used to undermine news and opinion that doesn’t portray the government in a favourable light.

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Or how they’ve been, according to Liberal sources quoted in the Toronto Star, “seized with the issue of social media regulation for some time.” There is something deeply troubling about a government calling to clamp down on social media platforms just months before an election.