Juno News - February 20, 2026


Globe and Mail claims that “the United States has collapsed into fascism”


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The Globe and Mail calls President Trump a fascist. Is it possible? Is it even possible to be a fascist when you live next door to a fascist state? What do you do when the U.S. government blocks law enforcement from doing what they need to do to protect the public?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show. It is Friday, February 20th,
00:00:06.060 2026, and today's Friday, so we're going to do a special fake news Friday episode of the
00:00:11.860 show. I want to zero in on this unbelievably insane op-ed published by The Globe and Mail,
00:00:18.700 right? Like, we're trying to negotiate a trade deal with our American friends and allies.
00:00:23.780 Tensions are already kind of flaring because of the rhetoric from back and forth. We know
00:00:28.460 President Trump is the one in control, right? They're the more powerful country. They have
00:00:32.220 more cards to play. We are sort of at their mercy. And so this would be the time to show some good
00:00:36.860 behavior and to try to, I don't know, find common ground with our American friends and allies,
00:00:42.800 not in the most important newspaper of record, The Globe and Mail. Probably not the best time to be
00:00:48.120 calling President Trump a fascist again, right? This was the routine that got us into this mess
00:00:52.640 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, his deputy, constantly, you know, 0.96
00:00:57.880 calling Trump a bully and implying that he was a fascist and authoritarian and all this nonsense. 0.95
00:01:02.780 Well, it's back. They're doing this routine again. I want to go through this unbelievable 0.98
00:01:06.620 piece because it's just so pathetic. It's just, it's so predictable. And so just like, 0.99
00:01:12.540 just totally what you would expect from Canada's narcissistic elites. So here we have opinion. 0.88
00:01:17.960 What do you do when you're living next door to a fascist state? Written by Jason Stanley,
00:01:23.020 a contributor to The Globe and Mail. It says that Jason Stanley is the author of How Fascism Works,
00:01:27.620 The Politics of Us and Them, most recently, Erasing History, How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control
00:01:33.640 the Future. He is the chair of American Studies at the University of Toronto. And so he has decided
00:01:41.260 that President Trump is a fascist, okay? Let me just read a little bit from here. It says, 0.92
00:01:48.480 the United States has collapsed into fascism. Only naivety blocks this conclusion. And to paraphrase
00:01:55.720 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, naivety is not a strategy. The future is always uncertain,
00:02:01.000 as the heroic people of Minneapolis has shown the world. Okay, guys, like, if you're pointing to
00:02:08.540 what's happening in Minneapolis with ICE raids, as an example of how the United States is concretely
00:02:14.100 a fascist, I think you're kind of like drinking your own Kool-Aid. You're kind of mixed up in the
00:02:19.640 world of fake news. Because like, it's pretty simple what's happening in Minneapolis right now.
00:02:23.740 President Trump was elected, right? He's a democratic leader. He was democratically
00:02:28.220 elected by the people. He actually won the majority of the popular vote, which is sort of rare,
00:02:33.480 especially for a Republican. But he won a majority in an election. That means he is the democratic leader,
00:02:39.640 not a fascist leader, not a dictator, democracy, okay? America has one of the most enduring systems
00:02:45.240 of government ever created, right? And so President Trump is a democratic leader. One of the things that
00:02:51.260 he was elected to do was to deport all the bad guys, deport all the people that came in illegally, 1.00
00:02:56.800 particularly under Joe Biden's administration. He has a democratic will to do that. He's doing it
00:03:01.460 just fine all over the country. The place he's running into some trouble is in Minneapolis,
00:03:06.100 because of the officials in that state are trying to block a federal law enforcement, which is just
00:03:12.080 not a good idea, right? So you have ICE, the Immigration Enforcement Agency, trying to deport these
00:03:17.200 people. They're deporting bad guys. They're deporting violent criminals, people with violent histories in
00:03:23.380 the United States, people you don't want in your country, right? Rapists and killers. That is who 0.85
00:03:28.080 they're deporting. And the deranged people who are blocking them are like just totally radicalized.
00:03:34.580 They're totally radicalized. And they've decided it's a good idea to intervene. Imagine if someone in
00:03:40.840 your neighborhood was murdered, right? And they were going after, law enforcement was like chasing the bad
00:03:45.800 guy, the murderer who killed your neighbor. And these people are blocking the law enforcement
00:03:50.120 from going after, like, that is a crime. That is insane. That is stupid. There's no reason to do it.
00:03:55.980 And then for Canadians to observe from the outside and say, yeah, actually, you guys are fascists. And 0.96
00:04:01.720 so these righteous people, these heroic people in Minneapolis, I just have to show you this clip.
00:04:06.260 This was going viral a few days ago on social media, but it just kind of gives you a glimpse
00:04:11.360 into how insane the people in Minneapolis who are blocking ICE, right? You get a different kind
00:04:17.260 of perspective here when you listen to the woman. So many of these people blocking these police
00:04:22.120 investigations are like middle-aged women who have been radicalized online, radicalized on TikTok 0.78
00:04:27.360 to believe that they're living in a fascist dictatorship. It's obviously not true, but they
00:04:32.240 believe it because they've been radicalized and they've been manipulated. And you can hear her,
00:04:36.660 this woman in the car and how deranged she is. And listen to the ICE officers who are making perfect
00:04:41.560 sense or saying, hey, we're literally going after a really bad guy. And you're trying to block us
00:04:46.640 from arresting a really bad guy. And you can just kind of hear she gives it all away where she's
00:04:52.540 saying, I don't care. I don't care about the person you're trying to arrest or the victims of
00:04:58.120 the crime that he committed. I don't care about that. I'm going to play this video. It's about two
00:05:01.840 minutes, but it's worth watching to get some context into this whole situation. So let's roll
00:05:06.640 that clip. This isn't where I live. That's fine. This isn't where I live. No, because I wouldn't
00:05:18.100 be surprised if my parents paid all my bills. We just want to make sure you got home. This isn't
00:05:22.920 where I live. Okay, Olivia, we appreciate it. You can go talk to them. This isn't where I live. So if
00:05:27.300 this is not where your vehicle is, you might want to look that up with their state. It is buddy. My
00:05:30.820 address is correct on my ID and where my car is registered. Good try though. All right. Thanks
00:05:37.320 Olivia. Do you feel strong or what? We're good. Have a great day. Okay. I'll keep following you.
00:05:44.800 Okay. Why? Why are you intervening in a police investigation? This is not rational behavior.
00:05:53.940 How's it feel to be a race traitor? You know, we were trying to get a child molester, right? No, 0.96
00:05:59.780 you weren't. Yes, we were. How would you know? Because it was a woman you talked to. His wife. And
00:06:04.400 then his play came back as murder. Also, I just want to say, calling someone a race traitor. But you 0.66
00:06:10.280 guys don't care. I hope you realize that is the most racist thing you can say as a white woman. 0.99
00:06:14.500 Of course it is. So, you know, um, this isn't a good look for you. You think I care about my look?
00:06:21.440 No. Oh no, no. Trust me. When you guys are. It is evident by how you look, you don't care. We get
00:06:25.160 that. Trust me. No, that's what I'm saying. I'm just saying this trying to be a social warrior. If you
00:06:29.460 actually cared, you probably would care about the child who got raped and also the person got murdered
00:06:33.340 by the person that we were looking for. But see, you don't care. No, I don't care because you guys
00:06:37.680 try. Thank you. You just try to detain legal immigrants. None of you actually. If you were 1.00
00:06:43.380 here to get illegal, violent immigrants off the street, that would be fine. That's not what you're 1.00
00:06:48.320 doing. It's not. No, hold on. It's okay. She said that. You need to back up. It's not. It's not
00:06:52.700 what you're doing. Just so you know, if you were to spray that, you would be arrested. That's fine.
00:06:56.940 Okay. Don't come close to me. Well, we're going to tell you this. Stop following us. No. It's not
00:07:01.220 illegal. You don't want us. You don't want us to come close to you, but you keep riding our tail. I have given you
00:07:06.500 plenty of distance the entire time. Okay. Just so you know, if you do impede, I want you to hear
00:07:11.200 this. Me following you is not impeding. I'm well aware of my rights, buddy. If you impede, you will
00:07:16.280 be arrested. I have not impeded. I'm just letting you know. What are you looking for, you weirdo?
00:07:21.540 Did she put that OC? That's right. Yeah, she did. She put that. What are you looking for, you weirdo? 0.61
00:07:29.720 Okay. So pretty clearly, the woman in the car is totally deranged. 0.99
00:07:32.880 She's actively just trying to harass law enforcement who told her what they're doing. 1.00
00:07:38.000 They're trying to arrest a rapist and a murderer, right? And she's saying, well, if you were doing
00:07:42.880 that, that would be fine. And they're saying, that is what we're doing. That is what we're doing.
00:07:46.580 And so just to back it up, back to the Globe and Mail, the Globe and Mail are picking the side of the
00:07:51.760 lunatic in the car and calling her heroic and saying that that's an example of Trump's fascism.
00:07:57.000 Like, it's just so juvenile. It's so pathetic. The fact that this guy's a chair of American 1.00
00:08:02.360 studies at one of our top universities just shows us how far gone the academic world is
00:08:08.540 in this nonsense. Like, they've drank in their own Kool-Aid. They're totally insane, right?
00:08:12.960 All of these news stories and fake news stories that come out saying, oh, Trump arrested and
00:08:18.280 deported a five-year-old American. You look into it a little more. I was explaining this to a friend
00:08:22.020 yesterday because a lot of people see those kind of headlines and they don't even really know
00:08:25.780 what to think. It's like, let me just explain, right? So say there's a bad guy and he's getting
00:08:31.800 arrested, right? But then it turns out that he has some children and that he's like the sole provider
00:08:36.560 for them, that the mother's not in the picture, right? And so it's like, okay, you have these
00:08:41.000 American kids and they're born in the U.S., but you're getting deported because you're a bad guy,
00:08:45.440 right? So you have a choice. These kids can go to like their next of kin if they have a grandmother or an
00:08:50.480 aunt and uncle or someone they can live with, or they can go with you back to your home country
00:08:53.800 and to give the guy a choice. And the guy says, okay, these kids are going to come back with me.
00:08:57.920 They're still American. They can go back to the U.S. when they're older, but they're going to go with 1.00
00:09:01.920 their dad because there's no one else for them to go. It's like, it would be the same thing if a
00:09:05.560 Canadian committed a crime, an American committed a crime was going to jail. They'd say to the kid to,
00:09:10.680 you know, if they were the sole provider for their children, the sole guardian, you know,
00:09:15.080 where do you want your kids to go? Do you want them to go to a grandparent? Do you want them to go
00:09:18.460 into like adoption? Like, what do you want to do with them? Right? That's what happens in our
00:09:22.880 system and in our world when parents get arrested. And so it's like the same thing. So anyway,
00:09:27.920 it's all to say, there's just like a lot of fake news mixed in. And the fact that you have the Globe
00:09:31.820 and Mail and this academic buying into it, again, saying that the Americans are fascist. I'll just 0.77
00:09:38.320 read a little bit more. It says, but as with Russia, we must expect that it is possible the United
00:09:43.960 States will remain fascist far into the future. As with naivety, hope is also not a strategy.
00:09:50.600 One way of avoiding reality is to believe that it is only the US government that is fascist,
00:09:56.100 not the American people. But Donald Trump was perfectly clear about his intentions. The clear
00:10:00.580 majority of the United States voted for him anyway. It is a cold, hard fact that many Americans
00:10:05.960 are irredeemably racist and fascist. Even more Americans are sufficiently sympathetic to the 0.98
00:10:13.920 ideology of fascism that they voted for. The country, Canada's neighbor, also happens to be
00:10:20.640 the most powerful country on earth. How should Canada respond? After Russia conducted its full-scale
00:10:26.340 invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, I traveled to Ukraine to teach. I've learned much from Ukraine
00:10:31.460 and Ukrainians. I'm also American, a scholar of the United States, as well as a scholar of fascism.
00:10:37.480 I know my country well. One thing I'm not, however, is Canadian. I read here from my position as an
00:10:42.780 American anti-fascist intellectual with some experience in Ukraine and not as a Canadian.
00:10:50.300 Okay. And then the guy goes on to talk about like this, like academic framework for how to deal
00:10:55.040 with fascism. The entire premise is just totally ridiculous. Like anything mildly conservative, 0.95
00:11:00.560 like pro-freedom, I guess. This guy is like defining as fascism and authoritarian. Like,
00:11:06.340 I'm sorry, this sounds like a fever dream. This sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic. 0.81
00:11:09.700 And yet it's being like presented as wisdom and esteem and promoted by our elite institutions. You
00:11:17.200 know, George Orwell in his essay, Politics in the English Language, talked about how fascism is so
00:11:22.460 overused that the word has no meaning at all. That's completely true in this case. Like somehow
00:11:27.660 wanting limited government and for like people who are not part of your country to leave, 0.99
00:11:33.020 somehow that has been contorted into fascism. You look at the definition of fascism. It's supposed
00:11:38.300 to be an authoritarian dictatorship. It's like anti-democratic. You know, when you're talking
00:11:44.080 about like Benito Mussolini in Italy, that's like, he's the one that developed this concept
00:11:48.380 of fascism. A lot of it was having to do with government and industry working hand in glove,
00:11:54.260 which you could argue that happens a lot more in Canada than it does in the United States,
00:11:58.700 right? Suppression of dissent, right? America is a free speech absolutist country, right? They don't
00:12:03.880 have any hate speech laws. They have a totally free media. They don't have a huge government funded
00:12:09.200 state broadcaster like we do in Canada. Like you could argue that all of these bills passed by the
00:12:14.720 liberal government to try to regulate the internet and like the online harms act. And, you know,
00:12:20.500 they even want to make a residential school denialism a crime, right? Like, like Canada is
00:12:25.080 the country that cracks down on dissent and cracks down on three breaths. Like you could just as easily
00:12:30.580 say that Canada is a fascist country. What should America do to protect itself? Right? But like,
00:12:36.240 why would you even go down that path? Right? Again, I'm with George Orwell. Fascism has no meaning
00:12:40.560 because it's so overused and it's so ridiculous and so pathetic and petty and juvenile to point to Trump 1.00
00:12:46.900 and say, they're fascists. American people are fascists for voting for Trump. It's just nonsense 1.00
00:12:51.960 and it is unbecoming and it is below what should be published by the Globe and Mail. So that is
00:12:57.380 your fake news story. And I just want to add one story that we broke here at Junior News. This is one
00:13:02.920 of the biggest stories we've ever published. Exclusive names matching Canadian politicians appear in the
00:13:09.080 anti-ice protest donor link. So remember that deranged woman in the car that we showed you? Well,
00:13:15.420 it turns out that a lot of those protesters, they're very well organized. It's almost like
00:13:19.200 an insurgency. They have these group chats where they point to the direction and the name of where
00:13:23.780 these ICE officers are. They're trying to dox them, which is why a lot of these ICE guys wear masks
00:13:27.620 because there's bounties on their head from the Mexican cartels. Right? And so they have to cover
00:13:31.960 their identity because all these lunatics are out there trying to block them and trying to hurt them
00:13:36.000 while they're just trying to, again, carry out the democratic will of the American government to deport all 0.94
00:13:40.440 the bad guys. And here we have Canadians funding it. Canadians funding this insurgency network of
00:13:48.760 deranged lunatics like that woman in the car trying to impede active police investigations. 1.00
00:13:54.480 It's also wild and pathetic for Canada. All right, folks, it's all the time we have for today. Thank you 1.00
00:13:59.800 so much for tuning in. We'll be back again next week with all the news. I'm Candace Malcolm. This is
00:14:03.180 the Candace Malcolm show. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you and God bless.