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“The most important thing to remember about Pierre Poilievre—the best explanation for anything he does that might confuse you or seem strange—is that he believes he has no right to lose the next election.”
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“There’s precedent. In his 2008 book Nixonland, the historian Rick Perlstein describes the rise of Richard Nixon, another awkward outsider fuelled by resentment.”
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“I’m told by a member of Poilievre’s entourage that when I repeated the comparison between Nixon and Poilievre in 2022, the new Conservative leader was pleased.”
His entire campaign is just spreading mass outrage. It’s all he’s good at. He’s really good at talking smack and arguing with people. It’s what works on conservatives. Make them mad about something.
If the Cons were smart, they’re have kept him on a leash as an attack dog while making someone much more respectable be the party leader. Let PP do his vicious mockery act and outrage farming to soak up all the bad press, and let a normal-looking con take the seat.
Right now, PP is like a little yapping dog that got ahold of its own leash and doesn’t know what to do with it.
It’s just going to be everyone else to blame for everything (everyone but me, the conservative creed), and the corruption will ramp up. Look at Alberta.
Think with your big heads and not your small ones, Canada. This party is not the conservatives of yesterday, they do not care about you and me (billionaires and corporations only), and just take a look down south as to how far things can get carried away. Remember PP handing out donuts to the convoy? Pepperidge Farm remembers…