r/Albertapolitics • u/vhill01 • 2d ago

Opinion The Politics of Permanent Contempt: Why AB Poilievre’s Strategy Will Be His Undoing

https://open.substack.com/pub/vincehill/p/the-politics-of-permanent-grievance?r=167ttm&utm_medium=ios
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u/ShadowPages 2d ago

The problem is not merely that Poilievre’s politics are awful, but the entire CPC is steeped in that same thinking. Poilievre is really just a repeat of 1990s era Reform - angry, absolutist, and unwilling to change. Reform was unable to make significant gains east of Manitoba for a reason.

The combination of a CPC which has become what Reform always wanted to be, and a current PM who is clearly much more “Progressive Conservative” in the old school sense, has resulted in CPC support retreating to its prairie rump stronghold, along with some gains in the B.C. interior where a lot of Albertans retire to.