Overlapping participants in opposing convoys undermine the good-bad binary.

Evidence

Take those two trucker convoys: the noisy one and the quieter one eight months earlier, which was organized in solidarity with Indigenous communities grieving their stolen children. They made such a stark contrast. So, one way of seeing the two convoys is that one was good and the other bad. One was progress, the other a white-lash. That would be a comforting binary to choose between, and, in way, that’s how I told the story. But here is where the ground starts moving: some truckers participated in both convoys. In June 2021, they felt sorrow and solidarity; in February 2022, rage and self-righteousness. They were, like everyone, both that and this. And marginally different circumstances—social, political, economic—brought out different sides of them. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1100

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates the Mirror World thesis — the left’s abandoned grievances (Indigenous solidarity) metabolized into right-wing convoy politics eight months later. — connects to: Longer equivalential chains make the enemy’s identity less stable. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 454
• SEED: The two trucker convoys with overlapping participants could anchor an essay on how political identity is situational rather than fixed — ‘marginally different circumstances’ as the causal variable.