Politics has its rules that reason does not know. Rationally, given his previous service, notably as Premier of Quebec for several years, Jean Charest should have won the race for the leadership of the Conservative Party. But politics is always a matter of circumstances, of the right moment. The pythia of Delphi would certainly have prophesied that this was not the right time for Jean Charest. It’s time for populism, in Canada as elsewhere. By this yardstick, Jean Charest was no match for a Poilievre.
Politics is not a cruel “game”, but rather a “circumstantial game”. This is how things have been in democracies and even in dictatorships for a very long time. The exercise of power for any politician is always transient, ephemeral. And all in all, it’s probably better that way.
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