The B.C. election proved that once an electorate is sick of a particular party, even moral qualms about its opponents can be overcome
In the final days leading up to the B.C. election, things couldn’t have gone worse for Conservative candidate Brent Chapman.
BC Conservative Party Leader John Rustad, however, stood by his candidate, saying voters would render their judgment on his past behaviour.Of all the tactics that the New Democratic Party employed during the election campaign to defeat the upstart Conservatives, casting them as unfit for office based on past comments from candidates that reflected racist and bigoted attitudes appears to have been a massive fail. The NDP depicted Mr. Rustad as a climate-change denier and COVID-vaccine skeptic.
In some respects, it’s a microcosm of what we are witnessing in the United States. It doesn’t seem to matter how appallingly Donald Trump behaves or how truly disgusting some of his remarks are; tens of millions still intend to vote for him because they believe he’s a change from the Democratic challenger, Vice-President Kamala Harris, and the current Biden administration.Some will now question whether the NDP’s strategy of focusing so much on past comments was a wise move.
In the case of the B.C. election, the NDP wasn’t bounced from office – at least not yet. They are still clinging to power. Depending on the recounts underway, the NDP will likely try to press onward with the help of the two Green Party members who were elected.
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