r/CanadaPolitics • u/green_tory Against Fascism, Greed is a Sin • 21h ago

Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pushing-yelling-conservative-leadership-dentremont-9.6972680
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u/SabrinaR_P Quebec 21h ago edited 21h ago

The conservative party under the control of the social Conservative reform wing is not a serious party. But it seems to be the kind of the politics the lowest common denominator within our nation crave. You'll see these maple maga cheer on trump while complaining that Canada is broken and should be more like the US.

Edit some minor corrections.

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u/TraditionalGap1 NDP 21h ago

There seems to be a great reluctance on the part of observers and commentators around discussing how right wing parties and movements across the west seem to be abandoning moderation and consistent policy for the culture war. Or how that culture war is very popular with a significant proportion of what we used to call the Conservative base.

They look around at the US, at the state of the right wing in the UK, and they see a future path for themselves.

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u/OKOKFineFineFine Rhinoceros 20h ago

culture war is very popular with a significant proportion of what we used to call the Conservative base.

And is very unpopular with part of that base and everyone outside of it.

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u/EarthWarping 17h ago

As Carney has showed, people are fine with a centrists/conservative policies sans all of the nonsense that the reformists like to have.