America has always had a skewed view of itself

What the fuck is wrong with the GOP that this is who we have as VP?

The same thing that is wrong to allow the orange menace to be president.

Does he have to be an asshole to everybody?

It’s his only skill.

They have a history of dumping a leader who failed to show electoral success.

The way the entire Liberal party basically didn’t respond to the smear campaign against them

I interpreted that as partly “I’m not dignifying that with a response” and partly avoiding falling into a Gish gallop trap.

I doubt Carney would have wanted it, though.

Clearly most of those weren’t “core supporters” and more “I don’t like the other guy”.

When offered a better option, they bailed rapidly.

A party that accepted so many of that sort of people as candidates without any discernable vetting isn’t likely to attract a lot of center or left voters anyway.

It’s well understood by business people (at least by competent ones) that if you do something that makes your customer leave, they dont come back.

Ive lost track. Is this the 4th or the 5th candidate the Cons have had to drop because they’re found to be a complete shitbag (even by CPC’s low standards)?

If you’re truly conservative then you’d also support a deregulated free market that allows extreme wealth disparity.

That sounds more like mercantilism to me.

he was also in charge of the Bank of Canada for most of the time that Stephen Harper was the PM

Harper also invited Carney to become minister of finance (which Carney declined).

The conservatives don’t have a lot of honest ways to attack Carney

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Or PPC

A lot of people might decide to violently resist such an eventuality

I don’t see a lot of evidence to suggest that’ll happen.

My interpretation is they’re referring to the majority of Americans who aren’t out protesting.

or something ultra specific that is super easy to source from any other country, to exclusively hurt the american businesses

That was part of what went into how Canada chose the targets of our first rounds of counter-tariffs.

Product categories that we also make here, or can easily get elsewhere or can comfortably do without for an extended period of time.

That combined with a consumer led boycott of anything "made in the USA " and even staunch Republicans like Mitch McConnell are starting to push back against Trump.

Cult leader is accurate.

Doug Ford putting up ads and showing up on US TV, explaining what we’re doing to them with our counter tariffs.

As long as he also says why we’re pissed off and reminds them that we didn’t start this fight.

Which he has been doing so far in the interviews I have seen.

we don’t hate americans, we hate the asshole and his goons.

Though we are increasingly frustrated by those Americans who are sitting on their hands, and not actively trying to save their country from the self-harm it is currently experiencing.