The party can build a new coalition with working class and younger Canadians
The minute Poilievre announced he was running for the leadership, the race was over. It was not quite a coronation, and to the credit of Poilievre and his team they at no point behaved like it was. But there’s no point pretending that Poilievre was anything short of unstoppable.
Pundits will now be watching closely to see if Poilievre makes the supposedly necessary “pivot” towards the centre where all the swing voters that are needed to win elections are. But Poilievre should continue to do what he has done throughout the race, namely pay little attention to the advice of people who do not actually want to see the Conservatives win. Poilievre possesses two traits that endear him to hardcore Conservative partisans.
Political cleavages and alignments are shifting, with new divides coming to define our politics. Instead of performing the fabled centrist pivot, what Poilievre can and should do is grow the tent by appealing to people who were previously inaccessible. Blue collar and working class Canadians, whose values seem increasingly distant and opposed to the values of progressive elites, look ripe for the picking.
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