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Originally Posted by b1crunch
I said it yesterday on here, but if PP wants to win the next federal election he needs to cut out the 'conspiracy-theory' 'online-troll' vibe he gives off. He needs to be the mature one in the room and cultivate a positive vision for Canada.
Once Akin started interrupting him yesterday, he should have talked to Akin like a disappointed father would talk to his son. A sort of "you're better than this". Canadians (in my mind anyways) would have seen Akin as the idiot in the situation. Instead, PP decided to match Akin's stupidity with his own brand of stupidity.
PP can drop the 'woke', 'radical', 'liberal news' whatevers, and leave it to the actual online trolls that support him. They will gladly spin that narrative for him. I'd hope he'd pivot and now rise above it all. But so far, it's not looking good.
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As someone who hoped that PP would run in the leadership race and was glad that he won, I agree with everything that you said.
I think that this is a teachable moment for him. There's a difference between running for leadership and now being a leader, and there are ways to diffuse situations.
The reporter was being a child, thus he should have been treated like one. PP should have been the "adult in the room", and I'm sure that he regrets the interaction. He's a smart guy, I just think that he forgot that he's not a candidate for leadership anymore and that those things that worked for you with a portion of the "base" don't necessarily work with the wider electorate.