You are somewhat on point. But we have our nutbars here too and our Premier in Ontario was one of them… or at least elected by them.
Canada has, by nature and by our Constitution, a more communal orientation. So our otherwise right wing premier had to change course once the crisis hit and, frankly, I’ve been sufficiently impressed by his performance as to no longer hate him as a human being. Therefore, my wish that he suffer multiple anal fissures is held in abeyance.
We have our own reality deniers. But they are not linked to a single political party. We have the NDP to house some anti-vaxxers and the Conservatives to house the rest. We have libertarians housed in the Conservative camp, but others who go too far and join the yet to be labelled fringe fascists party.
Our extremism is structurally on the fringe. The Liberal Party is impermeable and, as such, we have a permanent safe harbour.
So yeah, I get it.
Red state/Blue state, insanity/sanity.
A simple dichotomy that one would think the winner would be clear and undisputed. Why isn’t life so simple below the 49th?