If the PCs had elected  a rational, clear-thinking leader  instead of Hudak, the outcome might have been very different.

But no. They - the PCs - went full-court press right-wing nutjob, and a Wynne government was the result.

Will Patrick Brown be able to wrestle the PCs back from the extremist elements in his own party? Might be too early to say, but at this point it doesn't look good.