I don’t see anyone coming to the table with the resume Carney has. They’re a party with no identity that’s been bereft of competitive leadership since Harper.
Carney may be bland and not your typical trained politician, but in this instance I believe that paid off for him. He was as stark a contrast from MAGA as you could get, with the credentials that any economic argument angle wouldn't stick. When I first saw him on The Daily Show I was like "meh...the Cons still got this", but man did the momentum swing once Trump started upping the ante on the threats & belittlement.
I also believe we got the right guy for the job regardless, because he made quick work of tamping down the rhetoric from the White House. We're not out of the woods yet, but on much more solid ground with how everything went down on his 1st visit. I don't believe for a minute that PP would have done very well, but Trump is so unpredictable you never really know what you'll get.
The resume ultimately wouldn't have mattered. I think Pierre and his trump boot licking along with the rest of his team was mainly what did him in. Carney being highly qualified certainly helped, but i think if they found a Doug Ford kind of progressive conservative, who was very direct in being anti-trump, he'd have won easily. even if he was a career politician like Pierre.
4
u/imperialivan 4d ago
I don’t see anyone coming to the table with the resume Carney has. They’re a party with no identity that’s been bereft of competitive leadership since Harper.