Message #48560

[mccoy]

Here in the land of Oz we have just witnessed a Federal election where the conservative leader ran a Trump like campaign thinking he was cashing in on Trump's recent victory. The result was the worst defeat for the Conservative Party in history. Something similar occured in Canada too.

Before voting day the Conservative leader accused the Prime Minister of being weak. The response was "kindness isn't weakness." It was a brilliant retort to a complaint about his social policies costing too much. It cemented the campaign for him.

Probably, one of the main reasons for the defeat of the conservatives in Canada and other nations has been the issue of tariffs and other declarations of Mr. Trump himself.