There are guys I know of in the CAF who used to be hardcore Trump fans. Guys who would constantly whine about how they wish Canada was more like the US. Guys who idolized the American military.

Those same guys would shoot Trump in the face if they saw him now.

Yeah, they're still right wing chuds. Yeah they still agree with 90% of his rhetoric. But none of that matters. He threatened our sovereignty. The moment that happened, he was dead to them.

And, I cannot emphasize this enough... the CAF as a whole is way less right wing than people think.

I regularly hang out with active duty reg force soldiers, and the ones I know are a mix of NDP voters, gay liberals, and genuine communists and anarchists. The CAF is a hugely mixed crowd. And while the enlisted do tend to skew somewhat conservative on the whole, the officers are all highly educated people (degrees are a requirement for officers) who tend to be much more liberal or left leaning.

It's not unusual for these guys to pick "the KKK" as their fictional enemies for section attack training. I've seen a warrant threaten to punch out anyone they catch being transphobic. I know a retired gunner who goes on loud, unprompted rants about what a fucking asshole Pollievre is.

This mentality that the CAF are a bunch of Trump worshipping proto-nazis is ignorant idiotic hogwash from misguided leftists who've never stepped a toe outside of their bubble and it genuinely hurts the left wing cause in Canada because there is so much support just waiting for us in the CAF if we stopped treating them all as a write-off.