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It's very clear that Poilievre's campaign strategy that he's been working with for the past couple of years is one of populism. He's been singling out "enemies" of Canada: Trudeau, woke people, immigrants, etc.

Now, that works when you've got general dismay with the current state of affairs. You rally people and focus their anger on the proposed enemies, and he's been ratcheting up the rhetoric for a long time now. It was working.

Then along comes Donald Trump and he presents an existential threat to Canadian sovereignty, and overnight you have a common enemy that is VERY apparent to everyone. In this situation, populism isn't going to work anymore because now you have the whole country united against American imperialism.

Poilievre was always a weak leader. He's great at whipping up anger and partisan attacks, but that's all he's got. It's kind of become Conservative schtick. Attack, attack, attack, talk about how bad everything is and then some handwaving about solutions.

All that said, I'm frustrated at both Liberals and Conservatives for dangling tax breaks in front of us like candy. Are we all so dim that we don't see this as vote buying? Like, is any of this even remotely a good idea given our current situation?