This is a government that would appear ripe for the plucking: repellent to those outside its base, and increasingly unable to inspire much enthusiasm from within
some of these impressions have become, especially among swing voters – not the 32 per cent who said they would vote Liberal, but the further 25 per cent who would consider it – the voters it needs if it is toAmong these voters, supermajorities agreed the government “spends too much without thinking about the long-term cost,” is “not focussed on everyday life,” seems “to look down on people/lecture to them,” is “tired” and “lacks strategy,” and perhaps most damning, is unable to “manage basic...
As it is, the Prime Minister’s approval rating – often predictive of a government’s future support – is in: As of August, roughly 30 per cent of Canadians had a positive impression of Justin Trudeau, versus 50 per cent negative, the largest gap of his premiership .
With the PM’s latest declaration that he intends to stay on at least until the next election – and with rumours that that election could come as soon as this fall – the party would appear to be stuck with him. Not that it has much in the way of alternatives. Even if party members had the nerve to take him out – a long and bloody business, in the absence of any formal process for doing so – there is no obvious replacement for him.
That’s all the Conservatives have to do, it would seem: show up, shaved and sober, with practical proposals for addressing the everyday concerns of swing voters. And yet, time and again, the party has failed to do so. It failed to do so in 2019, it failed in 2021, and it seems determined to do so again.
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