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Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse
(www.politico.eu)
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Oddly enough I wouldn't even call it a collapse.
Conservatives walked away with far more seats than they did in 2021.
Yes...it's a collapse from what they were projected to win before JT stepped down. But more than anything it's shown that it isn't necessarily the Cons that we have a problem with, it's the "Trump-Style" Conservatism that Poppinfresh tried to inject into the narrative. Rhetoric, slogans, hateful dogma, gaslighting the voters to think that everything is broken and that "they're" the only ones who can fix it, etc...
It's not a surprise that as soon as JT stepped down voters said "Oh thank god" because they could finally stop holding their nose and not have to vote for the one guy that they hated slightly less than Trudeau.
If Conservatives don't oust him as leader after it's plain as day that HE is the hated one, not them, then they're stupid.
Help out this Yank-adjacent thing: Why was JT so incredibly unpopular?
JT is one of the useless neoliberals like Macron or Biden who is more interested in maintaining the status quo and insisting that everything is working fine. Everyone and their mother can tell that our societies are on the verge of collapse and are ready for fundamental change. Most aren't too fussy about what that change actually is
Yes thank goodness we have Mark Carney, he's definitely not interested in maintaining the status quo. I expect nothing less than radical leftist reform with a central banker at the helm.