Social Conservatism

We need a smaller tent

Politicians have a strong urge to hug the middle of the road. To water down their message to offend as few people as possible. This results in a ‘big tent’ of mildly supportive, marginally motivated voters. Instead of disagreeing on substantive policy differences, election campaigns often…

Patrick Brown is splitting the vote

Conversations about starting a new political party on the right often go like this.

Actual conservative: I’m fed up with the PCs. We need a new party in this province.
Red Tory: What? Like the Reform Party? You’re just going to split the…

Ontario Needs an NDP of the Right

“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically…