That said, it's best long-term strategy will be to grow amid a fiscally-conservative, socially-liberal series of CPC minorities
O'Toole is fiscally-liberal and socially-liberal. Look at his plan to balance the budget? It's a 10 year long plan. Do you really think that if O'Toole wins (even with a majority) that the Conservatives will still form the government in 10 years? By then we will have another Liberal government which will be even further to the left.
You want to hear about realpolitik? A Conservative Party that shifts to the left will cause the Liberals to shift even further to the left. Let O'Toole reign for two or even three legislative periods and then when the next Liberal PM comes around, you will grow fond of how "moderate" Trudeau was in comparison.
Entirely possible and I would say a reasonable contention. Giving ground lets them take ground.
I would note that the greater weakness of the LPC contra the CPC in this particular decade will be ruinous in light of Communist-occupied China's hundred year marathon, now in its final stretch. Were the international implications of a NDP-LPC coalition or another LPC government not so consequential (i.e. for the West), I'd say let the left continue to activate conservative sentiments. We can't run the risk.
O'Toole is fiscally-liberal and socially-liberal. Look at his plan to balance the budget? It's a 10 year long plan. Do you really think that if O'Toole wins (even with a majority) that the Conservatives will still form the government in 10 years? By then we will have another Liberal government which will be even further to the left.
You want to hear about realpolitik? A Conservative Party that shifts to the left will cause the Liberals to shift even further to the left. Let O'Toole reign for two or even three legislative periods and then when the next Liberal PM comes around, you will grow fond of how "moderate" Trudeau was in comparison.
Entirely possible and I would say a reasonable contention. Giving ground lets them take ground.
I would note that the greater weakness of the LPC contra the CPC in this particular decade will be ruinous in light of Communist-occupied China's hundred year marathon, now in its final stretch. Were the international implications of a NDP-LPC coalition or another LPC government not so consequential (i.e. for the West), I'd say let the left continue to activate conservative sentiments. We can't run the risk.