How the Canadian Trump lost his backbone and the election
There are lessons for leaders on the right to learn here. Firstly, have convictions and secondly, have the courage to ‘live’ them. Political conviction acts like a ballast for when a campaign is derailing. Conviction prevails. In the case of Poilievre, he exposed himself to having weather-vane beliefs. He talked big but didn’t see the big picture. As one critic put it, he is ‘a minor man with big dreams and a self-regard at odds with the limits of his talent’.
He is not the only such one. The establishment ‘right’ in the UK too is beset by self-regard and ‘Trump derangement syndrome’. A dangerous mix.