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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Other than the media spectacle have there been any long term ramifications?
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I would argue that leadership changes in both the CPC and UCP were accelerated by the convoy/blockades and the Reform/Wildrose wings of each party. The replacements have moved each party farther to the right and deeper into conspiracies, populism, and freedumb libertarianism. Key ingredients of the convoy.
The shift is a global phenomenon, of course, and things were trending in that direction since each party "unified" the right. But I think that the pandemic culminating in the convoy/blockades signals the point where the CPC and UCP went from trying to contain the fringe as useful idiots, to both parties being consumed by it.