Liberal party that refuses to dump Trudeau is heading for scrap heap
We hear little about organized pressure on Trudeau to quit. The only successors whose names come up are either silent or weirdly timorous.
The Liberal Party of Canada can’t even raise a decent revolt against its wildly unpopular prime minister — another sign of drop-dead decay.
Polls show that the only way the Liberals can win another election, or even hope to be the official Opposition, is to get rid of Justin Trudeau.
But where is the grand old Liberal machine, that ruthless, brutal guardian of party power?
We hear little about organized party or caucus pressure on Trudeau to quit. The only successors whose names come up — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and money guy Mark Carney — are either silent or weirdly timorous.
They’d both be awful choices anyway. Freeland is too linked to Trudeau and Carney would be the Michael Ignatieff of our time, another doomed duck out of water.
Faced with Trudeau’s refusal to quit, the Liberals desperately need to force him out and put forward someone credible.
Time’s running short. The PM who waits too long to leave, like Brian Mulroney in 1993, invites not just defeat but collapse of the party.
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