BESLER: You didn’t say how Harper defends globalism, you hint that he brings it together with populism. How does he accomplish this?
I just finished reading Stephen Harper’s, new book, “Right Here, Right Now”. I was interested to see how Harper would bring together his populist views, with his advocacy of globalism. On that topic, he stated that, “ The right conservative path is not to bemoan today’s populism, it is to listen to it and learn from it .” He suggests that not doing so will lead to a destructive left-wing populism of which society may never recover. I am paraphrasing here however, I believe former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is essentially saying: Andrew Scheer messed up, should have kept Maxime Bernier in the party People are rejecting Trudeau’s “post nationalism” They won’t return to the Scheer style Conservative elitism they also recently rejected They will support Maxime Bernier, and values-based populist conservative ideas If the conservative base won’t unite around values-based populist conservatism, then perhaps someone like Alberta’s Rachael ...