Beating up on cityfolk and/or Easterners and/or Quebecois plays really well with Poillevre’s base.
That’s it. That’s all he has: riling up rubes in hopes he can ride a protofascist wave into office, Desantis-style. No policy, no ideas, nothing but white grievance. Modern conservatism, folks, just a big ol’ cup of white male Boomer tears.
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Beating up on cityfolk and/or Easterners and/or Quebecois plays really well with Poillevre’s base.
That’s it. That’s all he has: riling up rubes in hopes he can ride a protofascist wave into office, Desantis-style. No policy, no ideas, nothing but white grievance. Modern conservatism, folks, just a big ol’ cup of white male Boomer tears.
At least that’s one other trick variant in Poilievre’s book than the usual “it’s Trudeau’s fault”.
Unfortunately it seems to work. My hillbilly relatives in AB/SK eat it up.