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Originally Posted by Firebot
Yet here they are. Further right than ever. Pants-on-head stupidity all by themselves as you say. 43% polling projected for supermajority status with a 20 point lead. And they are about to win handily because the alternative is just that bad. Folks who have failed at criticizing Liberals or NDP to wake up and listen to their constituents or risk to further alienate their own base, focusing solely on the CPC being bad, scary, populist, etc, are why this result is expected.
That again speaks more about the Liberal-NDP collapse than it does the CPC turning things around (which obviously they did not).
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Yes, here they are, at the tail-end of a government that has overstayed their welcome and alienated their own base. Voters are begging for an alternative. I think this has more to do with a typical democratic cycle than anything.
They didn't
need to entrench themselves further to the right. They chose to do it because they listened to the loudest, stupidest people in their party. An inanimate carbon rod would poll well against Justin Trudeau right now.
You can't really pull out the Eric Andre meme of "how could they have done this" when it is the Conservative Party that decided the best course of action was to appeal to the lunatics.
PP is a highly unlikeable candidate that borrows and polishes the worst parts of populism. But, as you say, the alternative is just so poisonous that he's likely to run away with this.
The Liberals certainly have some soul-searching to do if they want to regain the confidence of Canadians, and I don't blame the Conservatives for thinking they needed to try something different and bolder. But I just can't track how the LPC's words, policies, or actions should be an excuse for the CPC putting said pants on their heads.