Canada

he is actually liked by true Liberals

:-/

he’s not senile

:-)

he has that outsider business-man status that the middle class loves

🤮 I have never actually seen a "business-man" candidate that does well on the merits above the office of mayor. Even then, "business guy" mayors tend to be some of the most shamelessly corrupt and despicable people to touch the office.

But I guess he's one-for-three, which is better than Biden.

I find it very unlikely that this minority liberal government would survive a significant economic downturn, regardless of who would be in charge of it.

The nature of liberal politics is knowing you're on a pendulum ride and making the best of whatever time you've got. Far too often, I see liberals insist they can ride the pendulum through the conservative arc by just pretending at conservative politics for a few years and then going back to being liberals again a few years later. Conservatives, by contrast, leap at the chance to inject every right-popular policy they can when they're in office and then scream about obstructionism as they lose popular support.

The consequence of these two strategies executed in cycle is a country that keeps getting ratcheted to the right by degrees. A country - like America - was broadly on board with gay rights and carbon caps and universal public health care and public university education twenty years ago. Now we're obliterating elementary schools, green-lighting coal ash dumping, and hunting transgender people for sport.

If Carney is going to waste the next few years, Canada is going to be even more fucked for his nominal victory than the UK is looking as it goes into a 28% Reform Party cycle.