1. Riffing off something @theturner tweeted recently, we need to gauge Mike Harris's continuing impact on Canadian politics.
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2. Harris's tenure as Ontario premier ended a long time ago, but his fingerprints can still be seen in both Stephen Harper and Rob Ford.
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3. Harper is better seen as the heir to Harris rather than the progeny of Preston Manning. Harper is Harris gone Federal.
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4. And Rob Ford is Harper re-purposed for municipal politics. Ford's dad was backbencher in Harris gov't.
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5. What is Harris's continuing influence? I'd say a certain form of mean populism, shaped by an anti-intellectual, anti-institutional bias
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6. The older Canadian right-wing populism wasn't so much anti-institutional as counter-institutional: wanted to created new institutions.
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@HeerJeet is there any analogue on the Canadian right to Southern ressentiment? (Cc:@davidfrum )1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DougHenwood@davidfrum Some Western resentment (from say Alberta) is parallel.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@davidfrum they didn’t lose a civil war2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@DougHenwood @davidfrum Yeah, there's nothing comparable in intensity to Southern resentment.
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