The problem with this new Conservative Party is that they're zealots. They have a messianic belief that their ideology has been handed to them from Mt Sinai's top. They consider all other parties to be infidels and agents of Satan.

Opposition to Harper would not have been so fierce if he'd behaved like an ordinary politician. What upset people was the gargantuan Omnibus Bills, the gutting of Stats Canada, the gagging of government scientists, and the repeated use of cloture to end debate.

This "We are Right and You are Wrong" attitude won him enemies where he had none. It wouldn't have been so disasterous an end for him had he been just a little bit statesman like.

And now the party is looking to a buffoon because it wants to harass Trudeau rather than debate him. Because debate would assume that there were two sides. A buffoon on the other hand is a law unto himself.

O'Leary is Trump-lite. He's also the end of the United Right. He'll make Trudeau look polished and experienced