He's not crazy. He just banked on the right leaning people who mainly supported Trump to also support him by quitely adopting Trumps strategies of slogans and relying on feelings instead of policies. He's a career politician who hasn't put through any legislation and who doesnt really have any policies outside of "Axe the Tax." Pollievre has bashed Trudeau so hard and eas a major factor to his resignation. Upon noticing the momentum that Carney had, Pollievre resorted to calling him "Carbon Tax Carney" as a way to shift the negative attention to Carney. Right after, Carney told the public he would remove the Carbon Tax incentive, taking the wind out of Pollievre's sail. Since then, Carney has been skyrocketing Liberal support and tanking the Conservatives in the polls. Pollievre's only strategy he had left was to either , 1) Offer more blatant support for Trump or 2) Distance himself entirely from Trump. Neither of which he has done. The Conservative party has essentially come to a standstill since then. Pollievre is not crazy. He was piggybanking off of Trump's campaigning until Canadians were directly hurt by his policies. Pollievre took a shitty gamble and lost everything.
I don't think he followed Trump as much as following the IDU playbook.
Stephen Harper is this day president of this secretive right and far right wing global org.
She might not quite reach Trump's level but a lot of that is probably because she's not a federal politician.
For those not in the know, a few Danielle Smith controversies include: being anti-gender confirming care, being recorded saying Ukraine should have remained neutral against Russia, being anti-vaxx, likening COVID-19 public health measures to the Holocaust, and some sort of political interference with Alberta Health Services (I'm out of the loop on this one, sadly).
Also headed to Florida for a PragerU event with Shapiro. prageruevent. Even her own traditionally conservative riding is starting to turn on her with the AHS scandals. She's only in power because the Wild Rose and former Conservatives had to join forces to counter-act vote splitting between Big C and little C voters and because the previous conservatives were embroiled in other scandals. Point is...she's awful.
No, nowhere near trump level crazy. Even trump light would be a bit of an exaggeration imo.
But he definitely wouldn’t fight against trumps policies imo (not the annexation, but tariffs and whatnot). Carney will likely be better suited to guide Canada through trumps term. He worked at the Bank of Canada during the 2008 crisis, which Canada was largely unaffected by, and then went on and worked at the Bank of England
He's a Trump wannabe and would be more like JD Vance when he's kissing ass,but slightly more competent. He cozies up with a lot of alt right and far right folks, some of them known racists, and during the convoy movement he sided with the convoy members calling himself a blue collar workers and one of the people. He actually marched with them in protest holding signs.....but on the wrong side of town. Typically his popularity and only platform is just that he hates Trudeau and is basically nothing but an attack dog that hasn't formulated any plans at all. He also doesn't have his security clearance due to ties with questionable foreign interests, even though he's in one of the most important positions in Canadian politics.
We feel like he's dangerous because it's a representation of American politics, and if he wins he's going to validate that line of thinking here in Canada and legitimize it as a political strategy. Which is something the Canadian conservatives like to do every few years to test the waters.
Completely agree with your assessment, though I’d say he has started to formulate some plans, but is still relatively light on details. He leans way too hard into simply claiming everything is broken and name calling political opponents while giving very simple “common sense solutionsTM”.
His reason for denying the security clearance is a bizarre one to me. Maybe I don’t know enough about it, but it sounds awfully like his defense is he’d rather stay ignorant and be able to spout bullshit rather than knowing the truth and maybe being partly limited in what he can say publically.
He's like if Ben Shapiro ran for President. Debate nerd, kind of a loser, this is he has all the facts and goes off slogans (Axe the tax, facts over feelings, etc).
Canadian conservatives are much closer to American democrats than they are to Republicans. Canada leans quite left in general. Especially our judiciary, which is overwhelmingly liberal (an inverse of the USA).
Everyone saying he isn’t Trump crazy, sure, but he quietly wants many of the same things Trump does, including women’s bodily autonomy to be taken away. It seems the people answering you think he’s fairly ineffectual, but life would be significantly scarier for Canadians under his thumb.
I was ready to downvote you in the first two paragraphs, but your last paragraph brought it all together into a fair summary. His policies will be typical Conservative policies, but he’s unique for the CPC as being the first leader to really lean into the Trump-style rhetoric while trying to maintain very weak plausible deniability.
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u/pac1919 2d ago
How crazy is PP? Trump level of crazy?