Poilievre’s Alberta triumph, a landslide with fault lines. Eighty percent is a victory but the West is still waiting for Ottawa to quit picking its pocket (Western Standard)

Eighty percent. Think about that number. Pierre Poilievre took four out of every five votes in Battle River–Crowfoot. It is the kind of margin that would make a Soviet apparatchik blush. The Conservatives didn’t just win. They flattened the field. The Liberals and NDP weren’t opponents. They were extras in a conservative play.

And yet. Behind the great Conservative thumping lies an inconvenient truth. Pierre Poilievre isn’t really from here anymore. He left Alberta a quarter century ago to work for Stockwell Day. Since then, he’s been a resident of Ottawa — elected in Ontario, living in Ontario, steeped in the bubble. If this was a homecoming, it was the sort where the guest has to ask for directions ...

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