Steve Schmidt, veteran Republican operative turned Never-Trumper, is outraged by Trump’s belittling of Canada, our staunchest ally. There is no more durable alliance than ours with Canada. Trump’s absurd claim that he wants it as our “51st state” is insulting to our friends.

Why does he like to antagonize our closest allies? Why does he defer like a puppy dog to Putin? Someday we will have the answer. Not now. The easy answer is that he’s a sociopath. But there must be more to it than that.

Schmidt begins:

What Donald Trump is doing is foolish in the extreme and deeply immoral. He is the steward of a relationship between two nations that has been forged across centuries. It is sealed by blood sacrifice on freedom’s alter, marriage, commerce and shared values. His bullying is unseemly, shortsighted and a refutation of the combined wisdom of 14 presidents across 82 years.

Heed their words. Take them in to properly appreciate the astonishing stupidity of the venomous Chauncey Gardiner from Mar-a-Lago, who is cheered when he should be jeered, and bowed down to when he should be confronted.

Everywhere one looks these days a capitulant weakling is defenestrating and beclowning themselves.

The obeisance plays out in many forms. For example, the silence around Trump’s outrages towards Canada are a form of capitulation. Where is Hakeem Jeffries? Where is Chuck Schumer? Where is anyone?

Remember this when thinking about the Canadian nation. It was the country in which an American slave could breathe free air.

Trump will debase our nation in a thousand different ways, and while all should be opposed, there are some assaults that must be opposed by the American people.

Donald Trump is not king. He was not elected to harass, destabilize, assail, assault, disrespect or insult Canada….

Trump’s conduct is disgusting. For my part, as an American citizen, I repudiate the coming actions of the Trump administration towards Canada, our ally and friend. This is shameful and embarrassing, but not as much as the silence of all of Canada’s friends across America.

What is happening is no laughing matter. It is wrong, and sometimes that should be enough.

Schmidt goes on to post the speeches delivered to the Canadian Parliament by Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. All were respectful and appreciative of our neighbors to the north.

Trump is like a dinner guest who blows his nose with his dinner napkin, spits in the common soup bowl, and tells the host that the food stinks. Never invite him.