i'm just trying to imagine where to put john kasich on the political spectrum, in canada.

you might pretend he's a moderate, and i might disagree, but he was a relatively mainstream republican, at one point. he's in the spectrum, down there.

i'm not even sure that the populist party in canada, what we call a far-right fringe group, would be able to deal with a john kasich. this is somebody that left the conservative party because he thought it was too liberal, and still calls himself pro-choice (although he supports the kind of restrictions that clinton does on late term abortions).

so, our far right party has roughly the same position that hillary clinton had; in our spectrum, she would be considered an anti-abortion extremist. so, where do you put kasich?

he's certainly not a libertarian.

the grassroots of the reform party had a strong anti-abortion component, but the leadership of the party just used it as an excuse to string along donors. there is little evidence that they ever had any real intent on banning anything, and they never did, despite repeated opportunities. in the end, the donors started dying off, and the issue seems to have largely receded from the conservative party's discourse.

in canada, john kasich would really have to join something like the christian heritage party, which is a crypto-fascist group, just like kasich is, himself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Heritage_Party_of_Canada

this is a party that gets a few thousand votes per riding at most and has never won a seat at any level. but, it's the only party that would come close to representing his views on abortion.

he may have been a socred, back before they disappeared in the early 80s. the socreds were legitimately anti-abortion, along with being anti-semitic and absolutely vehemently opposed to the metric system. i wonder if i could measure the length of my middle finger for them, and set it to the standard of measurement.

canada is not as liberal as europe, either, in general.

so, america, you really need to look at yourself in the mirror a little. this guy kasich, who the center-left party just brought in to appeal to supposed moderates, would be unwelcome in any party in canada. he would be so far to the right that he's out of the spectrum.

and, he claims the party left him, in some kind of twisted reagan reference.

most of the world would have considered him unelectable - in fact unnominatable - from the start.