Poilievre is in a really challenging position. He now needs to create separation between him and trump to win, and the party beneath him seems absolutely paralyzed on how to do that. I attended a town hall with some CPC MPs last week and it was almost hysterical double speak coming from them- on one hand, trump is absolutely right, we need to spend way more on the border and this horrific fentanyl crisis, on the other, he's absolutely insane and these tariffs have no basis in reality or justification.
He has to differentiate from Trump but the base he's courted are part of the cult. He doesn't seem to have any idea about how to serve both (I am not sure it is possible.) IMO he's already gone too far right to capture those people to make a credible dart back to center pre election.
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