politics always has been life and death for many

who lives, who dies, who works, who prospers, have always been the questions that politics exists to answer

graphing calculators are everyone's friend

they're the Mr. Rogers of math class 💜

He was still a liberal, still in the pockets of Bay Street, still playing the game, but obviously not deep enough in those pockets for many people's taste

His relative lack of austerity & privatisation compared to Martin or Chrétien speaks for itself. Bay St didn't turn its back on him for nothing

Being the son of a Prime Minister is what allowed him an inside seat despite his politics not lining up with most of the party's power players. His name was the only reason he pushed his way into leadership.

He saw himself as more of a post-war-style liberal like his dad, and less of a neoliberal.

Personally, I think it's an oversimplification to hold a magnifying glass over the heads of politicians, when this so-called "coup" directly favours the interests of the most powerful segment of society, the ultra rich

Neolib politicians are more often tools of class warfare rather than masterminds

Yes. Alongside the entire Canadian neoliberal media ecosystem, who jumped whole hog onto the Trudeau bashing train, joining the far right to crater his popularity.

Carney is the instrument of this plan, not the mastermind. There are many masterminds and most of them work on Bay Street.

I think Trudeau was always the outsider, who bent the party away from serving the interests of finance capital as directly as they had in the past.

This is 'the Paul Martin Liberal Party' returning to its roots. Many Liberal power brokers were waiting impatiently for Trudeau's popularity to ebb.