Wednesday, April 30, 2025

"Turn Away from Your Own Party's Least Desirable Traits and Policies, Stand Up for Your Country's Basic Values, and Be Sensible and Rational on the Economy—Not Radical"

"For starters, Prime Minister Carney explicitly rejected one of his party's least popular policies on climate and energy while keeping other elements of the government's climate agenda. He also chose to run a campaign explicitly on the economy, patriotism, and national values—not Liberals' cultural priorities which remained in the party platform but did not feature at all in the campaign. Carney and Liberals also leaned heavily on notions of nation building and pro-growth economic models. They did not go 'full socialism' or 'post-neoliberal' falsely believing that thermostatic reactions to Trump and Conservative populism opened the door for kooky and impractical economic ideas. Instead, Liberals featured the calm and successful interventions of their ex-central banker PM as a contrast to the chaotic tariff wars of Trump and politicians like him in Canada."

John Halpin at The Liberal Patriot offers Democrats "Lessons From Canada's Liberals."

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