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Originally Posted by Monahammer
If he had bowed out after his divorce, he could have saved a ton of face IMO. He could have painted this story about how he needed time to focus on his life/family, that he will always love Canada but that it wasn't right for him to continue now. Everyone would have had to sympathetically bought into it, and the liberals could have cleanly washed in a new leader and likely ride that to a win. Trudeau could have gone on to be the elder statesman of the party and maybe even had a 2nd political life in the next decade if he chose.
But with him holding the reigns and the party getting slogged down he'll get buried with it. Baffling and selfish political move but I suppose we shouldn't expect less. He seems like a real narcissist.
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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, it's bizarre. I think everyone across the spectrum in Canada thinks he should resign.
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Eh, you run the risk of a lame-duck leader who gets destroyed anyway. Look at the PCs vis-à-vis Mulroney and Campbell. Mulroney jumping ship wouldn't have saved that election for them, the damage was already so far gone and done.
I'd also not keep Trudeau around in any capacity, when he finally does move along. Again: the PCs did that with Diefenbaker back in the day and it led to the party spending 20 years in opposition (save Clark's short minority government). Diefenbaker spent his last 12 years stabbing Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark in the back at pretty much every turn.