{"id":33088,"date":"2025-03-13T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=33088"},"modified":"2025-03-13T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:21:12","slug":"trump-mimic-poilievre-voted-the-most-likely-to-roll-over-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/trump-mimic-poilievre-voted-the-most-likely-to-roll-over-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mimic PoiLIEvre Voted The Most Likely to Roll Over to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Singing<\/a>T<\/span>he grievance-mining, rage-farming, puerile Trump mimic Pierre PoiLIEre<\/strong> was voted by Canadians the political leader most likely to cave in to Donald Trump rather than stand up for Canada against the fascist bully.<\/p>\n

That’s not surprising, given the piffleswipe PoiLIEvre has been using Trump’s playbook since Trump started his own campaign some years back: lie, deflect, gaslight, accuse, lie again, insult, never take responsibility, attack, lie some more, and blame everyone else. PoiLIEvre’s own corrosive mix of far-right bombast and bumper-sticker slogans gained him a solid following among the gullible grievance magnets in his Maple MAGA and convoy insurrectionist followers. And his harpy-like, death-by-a-thousand-cuts attacks on Justin Trudeau played up in the conservative-controlled media as fact instead of petty badgering, eroded the prime minister’s popularity at home. It was a campaign against a perceived enemy Trump would have been proud of.<\/p>\n

The CONservative leader has had no need to offer any solutions, let alone comprehensive policies and platforms for years as long as his three-word sloganeering and puerile insults propelled him ahead in the polls among people too busy or apathetic to read actual news with boring stuff like facts in it. The politics of division and anger worked well, as long as Trudeau was the prime minister.<\/p>\n

\"PoiLIEvre<\/a>But then the asteroid hit: his nemesis PM Justin Trudeau, gracefully bowing to the inevitable, resigned. Trudeau even decided to leave the ring of politics entirely. PoiLIEvre had no one to shadow box with.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, all those years of whinging, insulting, and tiny tantrums without anything serious or solid to offer Canadians made Pierre look weak and incompetent. Canadians reached for the substance and found only greasy air. The emperor had no clothes.<\/p>\n

And so PoiLIEvre tried \u2014 unsuccessfully because few were fooled by his volte face \u2014 to pivot from his constant “Canada is broken, we’re a shithole nation, it’s all Justin’s fault” messaging to “We’re a great country and I’m the only one who can protect it from the guy I’ve been cosplaying. Canada First…” The slogan which, of course, the domestic terrorist group, The Proud Boys were also using. While that connection seemed to have escaped (or was ignored by) the conservative media busy shilling for PoiLIEvre and the party, it was picked up and spread on social media by more attentive political watchers. The image on the right comes from a recent post on Bluesky, for example. We’re not fooled: we’ve known about PoiLIEvre’s close connections to extremists and far-right organizations and influencers for years.<\/p>\n

But Canadians generally know the score and even those in the cult of Pierre are starting to awaken. While the newly-minted PM-designate and centrist Mark Carney is not the leftwing Liberal some of us had hoped for, most Canadians see him as the best choice to lead the country during our trade-and-culture war with the USA and the Putin asset Trump. Carney is the adult in the room in Canadian politics, less flappable than the often histrionic and excitable PoiLIEvre. And far more likely to tell the truth when pressed for answers.<\/p>\n

\"PoiLIEvre<\/a>As a recent Pollara poll<\/a> indicated, the blinders are off and Canadians are starting to see exactly who PoiLIEvre is. And, aside from being tired of him and his wearisome faux-rage schtick, they don’t like what they see: “With Trudeau\u2019s exit from the stage, voters are focusing more on Poilievre, who more Canadians feel negatively (42%) than positive (32%) towards.” And 55% answered yes to the statement, “I\u2019m feeling worse about Pierre Poilievre.”<\/p>\n

Carney was blunt about PoiLIEvre<\/a> when he spoke at a leadership debate last month, saying, “Pierre Poilievre is the worst person to stand up to Donald Trump \u2014 he worships the man.” A recent Ipsos poll<\/a> confirmed that a lot of Canadians agree with that assessment: 31% of respondents believe PoiLIEvre\u00a0 would yield to Trump’s demands compared to just 6% for Carney. That’s a huge gap in credibility. And it speaks volumes about what many Canadians think of PoiLIEvre’s loyalty to our nation.<\/p>\n

But Carney wasn’t finished lathering the soap on Pierre. In his acceptance speech, Carney said (emphasis added),<\/p>\n

Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer. Pierre Poilievre\u2019s plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered. Because a person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him.<\/strong> Pierre Poilievre\u2019s slogans are not solutions, his anger isn\u2019t action, his division isn\u2019t strength. Division won\u2019t win a trade war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pollara ran an article<\/a> titled, “Carney holds big lead over Poilievre as leader who can deal with Trump, handle difficult situations.’ It noted (emphasis added) that the tide of public opinion has changed:<\/p>\n

Mark Carney begins his time as Prime Minister with a big brand advantage over Pierre Poilievre on the question dominating Canadian politics at the moment: Who do you trust to deal with Donald Trump? On this, 47% of Canadians trust Carney to deal with Trump, compared to 33% who trust Poilievre.<\/strong>
\nCarney also holds large leads over Poilievre when it comes to the economy (Carney 50%, Poilievre 32%) and the cost of living (Carney 40%, Poilievre 32%). And while Poilievre had established himself as the change option in Canadian politics over the past two years, more Canadians feel that Carney would \u201cbring about the type of change we need\u201d than feel Poilievre would (39% vs. 32%).
\nTrust in Carney on these issues is driven by brand advantages he holds on key leadership attributes. Notably, Carney leads Poilievre by 14 points on \u201ccompetent\u201d (Carney 53%, Poilievre 39%) and by 13 points on \u201ccan handle difficult situations\u201d (Carney 48%, Poilievre 35%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Russian state media has been attacking Carney<\/a> with a disinformation campaign. Of course they are: they want to see a leader who will cave in to their (alleged?) asset in the White House (Comrade Krasnov), not someone who will stand up against the bullying and threats. They read the polls, too, and know who the most likely candidate to crumble is. Notably, PoiLIEvre has not refuted that disinformation campaign, commented about Russian propaganda, nor said anything about standing with fellow Canadians against Russian aggression and lies? Not that I’ve seen, anyway.<\/p>\n

And that leads to the elephant-in-the-room question: why does PoiLIEvre still refuse to get his security clearance?<\/strong> What is he hiding? What does he not want to be made public? And how did he get so rich on a politician’s salary when he has never held a real job outside politics? Can anyone trust a leader who is so secretive and deceptive he won’t \u2014 or can’t \u2014 get a security clearance? Who is pulling his strings from the shadows? Canadians have a right to know.<\/p>\n

It should be clear to everyone that PoiLIEvre’s refusal is covering up something very dark and devious. Canada deserves better.<\/p>\n

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The grievance-mining, rage-farming, puerile Trump mimic Pierre PoiLIEre was voted by Canadians the political leader most likely to cave in to Donald Trump rather than stand up for Canada against the fascist bully. That’s not surprising, given the piffleswipe PoiLIEvre has been using Trump’s playbook since Trump started his own campaign some years back: lie, deflect, gaslight, accuse, lie again, insult, never take responsibility, attack, lie some more, and blame everyone else. PoiLIEvre’s own corrosive mix of far-right bombast and bumper-sticker slogans gained him a solid following among the gullible grievance magnets in his Maple MAGA and convoy insurrectionist followers. \u2026…… click below for more \u2193<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,1200,62,1760],"tags":[384,2034,2035,1761,707],"class_list":["post-33088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-and-provincial-politics","category-ideologies","category-world-politics","category-rightwing-claptrap","tag-canada","tag-carney","tag-maple-maga","tag-poilievre","tag-trump"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":417,"today_views":1},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33088"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33109,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33088\/revisions\/33109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}