trying to tie polievre to trump doesn't make any sense and is likely to backfire, as the only people likely to believe it are those that want it to be true. polievre was first elected in 2004, which was when george w. bush was president and paul martin was prime minister. this is before trump, before doug ford, before rob ford and before stephen harper, who i believe saw him as a loser and a lifetime backbencher because he was on the far right fringes of the party, and exactly the image that harper was trying to get out of the media.

it is likely a good idea to remind people that polievre would be more comfortable in the old reform party, but the actual reality is that almost everybody that is actually in play has little to no memory of the early 00s, let alone the distant 90s, when they were still little kids, or before they were born. i remember having that awkward discussion with kids in bars c. 2020ish, before the pandemic.

"oh. you were born in the 90s. hrmmn."

i look young, it's not my fault. the little ones come to me, not vice versa. they even buy me beer.

this is actually going to need to be an ideas election because it's an election that represents a generational overturn. the simple reality is that the demographics in 2025 are dramatically different than the demographics in 2015. we're going to need to look at some new ideas, and look at some old ideas, and have some new debates and some old debates because we have a lot of new voters. 

that's healthy.

the left, whatever that means in canada right now, can't get lazy this cycle. this cycle is about cyclical demographic renewal, and if it wants to ignore that it's going to get pushed aside.