Before you call this stupid remember where Trump started.
When your goal is to sway the uninformed, you need only sway their hearts, not their minds.
This is a tried and true tactic.
This isn’t stupidity, it’s intentional and calculating.
This bare-faced, obvious hypocrisy IS the point. It’s right in our faces, and it forces his supporters to defend it. But it’s the thin edge of the wedge…you defend this, and it shifts your tolerance window a bit, and the next one is a bit more egregious, and you defend that, then a bit more, and so on until you are defending felons and rapists who dismantle the government against your interests, because it supports your guy and hurts people you hate.
At the same time Poilievre’s opponents become even more indignant and angry, and it further divides into two sides - the team, and the other. This is all intended to firm up the cult and further divide out the other.
Sadly, he’s not stupid. He’s evil and cynical, and callously manipulating those who are stupid.
No, he actually is stupid, just not as much as his counterparts down south. The only legislation Pierre ever drafted Harper had to hire an army of consultants to walk him through it.
He’s being dogwalked by people smarter than him though. Make no mistake, Stephen Harper still has massive control behind the party, especially the religious wing. Anyone paying attention to Alberta politics knows that Project 2025 is already in Canada.
Whack the mole.
Shotgun the slogans.
Fiddle my faddle.
Verb the noun!
Anti-tax candidates have powerful supporters: people with money.
also people with no money
Only because of tv and social media campaigns paid for with money.
Ah, the classic. Occuse your opponent of doing the thing you do so it looks like both sides are the same.
“His entire leadership campaign” meaning literally the last three weeks? This is the opposite of a hot take, like, a Cold Give. That really doesn’t work as a figure of speech, but I guess that makes it perfect for Pierre to steal and use himself.
Whenever I have a hard time believing x, y or z can be this stupid, I look at the United States. And then I believe it.
And this predates Trump by decades too.
The messaging seems to be working, and if anything Canadians are illiterate
Stupid, or just cynical and evil?
I guess that depends on whether it works. God I hope it doesn’t work.
Be glad. In my country the bar to run is so high that only 2 people make it to the debates.
Lowering the barrier of entry is good
Axe the tax, Build the homes, Project onto liberals…
