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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'd say Doug Ford is old-style conservative in that he's not particularly ethical, he's up for a bit of corruption if it makes him and his friends money, he thinks about business before people, and he doesn't particularly care if poor people suffer. But he's also not really that interested in culture wars or enthusiastic about authoritarian fascism, and that's what distinguishes him from someone like Poilievre. For Doug Ford as long as he can get on with his own schemes, he doesn't really care how other people live. It's not compassionate but it's not hateful, just narrowly self-interested and somewhat amoral, and this is how he's an old-fashioned conservative. Poilievre by contrast wants to police how people live and govern by reactionary moral judgements, wants to impress Trump and the far right, wants to be perceived as a strongman himself despite having no such credentials and giving off incel-doing-weights-in-the-basement vibes, and wants to punish people. Doug Ford is damaging while Pierre Poilievre is poisonous.