blaming the absolute incompetence of the cons on the libs is pure cope tbh

how the fuck else do you manage to lose a >20 point lead and what was basically a landslide in just two and a half months (without even being able to blame a scandal for that result) and manage to change what would have ended in the libs possibly below the bloc and the neodems into a near majority lib government lmao

it's not even like people don't vote for conservatism; ford easily won in ontario and he's not exactly a liberal. the difference is that he (among other things) grew a spine when confronting the current us admin because that's what people wanted to see. meanwhile, poilievre had none and pretty much campaigned on not being trudeau and verbing the noun. trudeau resigning was not super hard to predict and yet it completely fucked the conservative "strategy", even more when carney started talking about removing the carbon tax.

i've never voted for either and i don't really care about either party (i'm tired of a decade+ under the libs but the cons aren't offering much better and i still remember harper so either way i wouldn't have been satisfied with the election result), but the cons only have themselves to blame for that one. it's like being surprised that you lost a race because your only strategy was expecting your opponent to keep racing on blown tires instead of doing a pitstop and changing them.