My concern is a suspicion that a lot of the support for people like Trump, Poilievre, and other populists comes from the fact that ‘progressives’ don’t even acknowledge that the sclerotic ways of modern govt are doing things like driving up the cost of housing. In the third part of this series I’ll be talking about this. There’s a graph from Naxos polling that I find is really interesting—it seems to show a lot of the people who used to support Poilievre have moved not so much to Carney as to ‘undecided’.
Please note, I’m not completely sold on Carney. But I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt right now. I’m also of the opinion that if we won’t support politicians who at least say the right things, we are never going to get anyone in office that will do a good job.
My concern is a suspicion that a lot of the support for people like Trump, Poilievre, and other populists comes from the fact that ‘progressives’ don’t even acknowledge that the sclerotic ways of modern govt are doing things like driving up the cost of housing. In the third part of this series I’ll be talking about this. There’s a graph from Naxos polling that I find is really interesting—it seems to show a lot of the people who used to support Poilievre have moved not so much to Carney as to ‘undecided’.
Please note, I’m not completely sold on Carney. But I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt right now. I’m also of the opinion that if we won’t support politicians who at least say the right things, we are never going to get anyone in office that will do a good job.