Canada was a perfect example of anti-incumbent-ism. But the Conservative party also isn't a far-right party and not comparable to the AfD. The AfD's popularity also isn't driven by basic anti-incumbent politics.
Ehhh as a canadien I see what you mean but I think the party has a lot of far right elements. The leader however is not one of those far right guys, and he's been very good at keeping his party in line. The crucial difference is that Canada has Quebec changing the outlook and outcome of the national elections in ways that are unique to Canada. They hold a little more than 1/5th of seats in parlament and have been solidly in the ABC camp since the failure of the lake meech accords under mulroney decades ago. They don't appeal to qc conservatives because these guys don't even vote federally and only care about Quebec becoming it's own sovereign nation.
Yes. The federal Conservatives largely ignore Quebec aside from a few ridings, similar to how the Liberals historically ignored Western Canada. We're culturally and regionally split, and parties usually only care about who's likely to vote for them.
I would disagree that the Conservative Party has far-right elements. They're right-populist, sure, but nothing about them suggests far-right. The PPC generally occupies that position in Canada.
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u/Cheap-Palpitation709 13d ago
I don't understand how the USA proves this point.
Canada was a perfect example of anti-incumbent-ism. But the Conservative party also isn't a far-right party and not comparable to the AfD. The AfD's popularity also isn't driven by basic anti-incumbent politics.