Thread by @Dred_Tory

The notion that the next election will be the most important in our history is a time-worn cliché, but it might be a fair statement this time. That's because, if the CPC takes the barbed-wire buggering currently in the cards, I don't see how it can remain intact afterwards...

O'Toole will obviously be blamed for the loss. Now, outsiders see the likes of O'Toole & Scheer as extreme, but a large chunk of the CPC grassroots sees them as compromising, waffling cucks. Their verdict will likely be that they lost because they were too "moderate"...

Take it from someone who's seen this process from the inside: When parties are demoralised & angry, they become unstable & susceptible to extremes. The next CPC leader isn't going to be a Scheer, Harper, or even Poilievre type. We're talking more Rempel-Garner, Genuis, Gallant...

The CPC is due for a Trump-style insurgency. Like the GOP, they've nurtured a culture of snake-handling, donkey-banging imbecility that has created the perfect environment for a jester's court to emerge. Obviously, that'll be unacceptable to much of the CPC membership...

So a rupture is inevitable, bringing us back to something like the era of the "right-wing" split of the mid-90s to '03. Except I think this one will be deeper & longer, much longer. In '93, the split was over policy. The next one will be over culture...

And culture is much less tractable than policy. Cultural rifts are much harder to heal.

Meanwhile, non-conservatives will rejoice, but a narrowing of political options is hardly a fit object of mirth. Democracy is built for electoral choice. A society without it is sick...

Ultimately, that's what the pathetic, GOP-cosplaying Pantaloons in the CPC are: More than just fundamentally unserious political detritus, they are the purveyors of a malignant social ill.