This is the framing. There's an inherent weakness to these guys. The tough country guy scared of downtown Ottawa. It's tricky tho because being some kinds of weak is fine, some people are for a variety of reasons, not bad ones. But when their performance/belligerence is a strongman's, this is it.
Observations from Montreal
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