Television host Mike Rowe on Wednesday slammed Canadian government officials for invoking the Emergencies Act to put an end to the demonstrations of the Freedom Convoy truckers amid a nationwide protest over coronavirus vaccine mandates.
"When this started, truckers were right on the leading edge of heroes," Rowe told The Blaze. "They were the very definition of essentiality. [But] in the course of two weeks, they literally went from hero to villain."
He added that "maybe this is somewhat of a silver lining [because] I kind of feel like we’re about to close the gap.”
Rowe said the truckers' fall from grace so quickly was a prime example of how quickly things can change in today's chaotic sociopolitical climate.
He stressed that "we are constantly changing the definition of words that for a long time we thought we understood. And those definitions are evolving in real time, and if we question it, if we ask about it, well they look at us like a cow looking at a new gate."
He emphasized, "In so many ways, we’ve been asked to simply ignore what we’re looking at and pretend that a new language has come along with lots of words we used to understand that we no longer do."
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