This is a very interesting read. It's the most articulate analysis I've read of the genesis of PP's politics. Also, read the comments. 'He Wants to Take a Blowtorch to the Welfare State' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025... - ThreadSky

charlesrusnell.bsky.social • 3 days ago

This is a very interesting read. It's the most articulate analysis I've read of the genesis of PP's politics. Also, read the comments.

'He Wants to Take a Blowtorch to the Welfare State' via @thetyee.ca https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/04/22/Poilievre-Blowtorch-Welfare-State/

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margaretdumont.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is an excellent interview with author Martin Lukacs on his new book, "The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule" and well worth a read, especially sharing with anyone you know who will be voting next week.

margaretdumont.bsky.social•2 days ago

"one thing that distinguishes Poilievre is that, far from softening, his political ambitions and his political principles have become more pure over the years. I think that makes him a rarity, and I think it also makes him especially dangerous."

margaretdumont.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Because I think one of the things that [Poilievre has] done so well — until, of course, this Trumpian curveball — is to dress up this hard-right, corporate empowerment agenda as an anti-establishment rebuke to the system."

margaretdumont.bsky.social•2 days ago

🚨 "Every pillar of what, I think, a lot of Canadians are attached to as the most decent, valuable parts of our society are things that, from the get-go, have been in the crosshairs of Poilievre: public education, Medicare, pensions."

margaretdumont.bsky.social•2 days ago

🚨 "The very principle of government playing a role in positively improving our lives, is something that, at a deep philosophical level, Poilievre fundamentally disagrees with."

margaretdumont.bsky.social•2 days ago

"He’s positioned himself as this anti-estab champion of the working class while he wants to take a blowtorch to the welfare state, the remnants of which even after these decades of neoliberalsm is what provides a modicum of a decent standard of living to that very same working class in this country"

margaretdumont.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Like other pseudo-populists on the right, he's v skilled at exposing/magnifying the cracks + crises in our society, then offering compellingly simple + wrong analysis about their origins, all while proposing solutions that double down on the neoliberal policies that created them in the 1st place"

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