Pierre's Shrinking Caucus!
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Pierre's Shrinking Caucus!
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Pierre's Shrinking Caucus!
I think we’ll see a bump up in the steady flight away from the CPC by small c conservatives, either through defections or (as Jeneroux had planned) through ‘retirements’.
First: they have a destination to go to as Carney reworks the LPC into a more explicitly neoliberal party economically.
Second: PP has proved his grip on the party to be impervious to assault, the takeover by ideology and personality cult is pretty strong. Anyone thinking they would weather this swing to the alt-right as a temporary or reversible thing has surely been disabused of the notion by watching PP lose the election, lose his seat, and then be re-coronated by the party. The ease with which they finagled a supporters-only, keep out the naysayers, money-men and true-believers convention is a demonstration of the hold PP et al have on the party that would make anyone with a different vision despair of ever accomplishing anything from within in the next decade.
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I think we’ll see a bump up in the steady flight away from the CPC by small c conservatives, either through defections or (as Jeneroux had planned) through ‘retirements’.
First: they have a destination to go to as Carney reworks the LPC into a more explicitly neoliberal party economically.
Second: PP has proved his grip on the party to be impervious to assault, the takeover by ideology and personality cult is pretty strong. Anyone thinking they would weather this swing to the alt-right as a temporary or reversible thing has surely been disabused of the notion by watching PP lose the election, lose his seat, and then be re-coronated by the party. The ease with which they finagled a supporters-only, keep out the naysayers, money-men and true-believers convention is a demonstration of the hold PP et al have on the party that would make anyone with a different vision despair of ever accomplishing anything from within in the next decade.
@DavidM_yeg
My local UCP has announced he won't run again, so the same flight seems to be happening in AB. We should promote it by writing letters and posts about how the conservative party is not conservative, it is maga, and real conservatives need to jump ship. -
@DavidM_yeg
My local UCP has announced he won't run again, so the same flight seems to be happening in AB. We should promote it by writing letters and posts about how the conservative party is not conservative, it is maga, and real conservatives need to jump ship.My guts suspect there *may* be a 2015 Alberta style collapse coming up for the CPC, but the prospect frightens me as much as anything, because here it was followed to a panicked resurgence, and a retrenched hardening of support around a clearly fascist pole.
