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Originally Posted by sa226
I just find it curious why Pollieve is leaning so hard into the far right talking points. I think it gives undecided voters some pause. Waiting to see what the other options are. If he just ran on "change" I think he would wrap this up pretty easily. Instead he's showing us who he really is at a time when Canadians are a bit put off with Trump style politics.
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Anyone who has been involved in conservative politics in this country for as long as Poilievre has dreads another split on the right. A divided right kept conservatives out of government federally for almost 15 years. So the overriding political concern of any CPC leader is to keep the right of the party onside so they don’t split away again.
When you combine that with the fact that only a small fraction of people who might vote CPC get involved at the nomination level, and that most grass-roots political energy these days comes from angry, terminally online people of one stripe or another, and you have a party leadership that feels they can’t afford to ignore the loons.