Where would Poilievre take the Conservatives? Not to the far right, but the far out
There’s a word for this sort of thing. It isn’t radicalism. It’s extremism. Radicalism implies a readiness to break sharply with current practice, to make sweeping changes in policy. As such it is neither good nor bad: Sometimes radical change is advisable; most times it isn’t.
But extremism is something else. It is not rooted in evidence, but in feeling. It makes no allowance for compromise or exceptions. It does not attempt to persuade but to intimidate. Its purpose is not to join the mainstream, but to disrupt it. It is implicitly authoritarian, even if it never gets anywhere near power.
It would not matter to them if, on taking power, he pursued policies that were diametrically opposed to those few he has proposed as a candidate – any more than they were upset by Mr. Harper’s policy reversals. It isn’t about policy, for them or for him. It’s about attitude. It’s about taking the fight to the enemy.
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