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Poilievre cannot be defeated if you attack him from the left. Everything from legacy media is to the left. Poilievre very much can be defeated if you hit him from the right.
Hard disagree, on both points.
Legacy media is performatively left-leaning, but it's still beholden to monied interests. Nearly all newspapers have dropped their labour beat, and news stories regularly talk about the economy in the context of the state of the stock market rather than that of wealth inequality.
And just like Trump, Poilievre is only vulnerable on the left. Where do you think all of that support is coming from? They're not all gun-toting, women/minority-hating fascists. The vast majority of those who support the extreme right in Canada (and the US, and the rest of the world) are people who are hurting financially and whom the left have abandoned.
If you want to beat a right-wing populist, you have to fight for the working class. We need parties that fight for things like:
The only thing Poilievre has going for him is the absolute rage people feel when politicians claiming to be "left-wing" get elected on "change" and then turn around and put the screws to those who have nothing left to give while wealth inequality continues to rise along with sea temperatures. He's an absolute weasel, but the left has so utterly failed to do its job, it's no surprise they're willing to vote for him -- he's the only one talking about how Canadians are suffering ffs.
The way to win this is to try to salvage some credibility and come out against the oligarchs and corporations that are literally killing us. Demonstrate that you'll help balance things out. You need to turn Conservative rhetoric against them and be bold for a change. Be fucking angry on our behalf and demonstrate a willingness to solve the Big Problems.
Or they can lean to the right. It worked great for Biden/Harris. Oh wait.
If "legacy media" in this country is to the left of Poilievre that just means that Poilievre has gone off the right end. I mean, the legacy media includes such bastions of left politics as the National Post, the Globe and Mail, etc.