‘Crazies’ now completely in control of PPC, says former executive - iPolitics - Martin Patriquin:
May 21, 2019 - Angelo Isidorou ... is a former PPC [People's Party of Canada] executive who has since become an outspoken critic of the party. Attracted to the libertarian, free speech planks espoused by the party and its founder/leader, former Conservative MP Maxime Bernier, Isidorou became disillusioned with the PPC for failing to disavow ... what he called 'the crazies' who had attached themselves to the party. Among them: Alain Deng, ... who once called Islam a 'disgusting religion' [and] is now the PPC candidate for the riding of Vancouver South. (I twice emailed Deng for comment, once in December and once this week. He didn’t respond.)...
"Deng is illustrative of how the PPC has gone from upstart party to potential threat to a veritable clown car in less than a year.... Far from being an isolated case, it seems loud, hateful and fundamentally unelectable elements within the party have taken over. 'We always thought we would outnumber the crazies. Now the crazies outnumber everyone else,' Isidorou says now... 'When I came to the PPC, the overall ethos was, "Look, it’s a new party and it’s going to attract people who are problematic." But with proper policies, a constitution, a national board, we would ice the crazies out'....
"Today, less than 250 days after Bernier officially registered the PPC in a hail of Twitter invective, the party has no constitution, no national board and little in the way of policies. Instead, it has Bernier and [PPC spokesman Martin] Masse — who, according to Isidorou, is largely responsible for the surreal, malignant Twitter stream appearing under Bernier’s name.
"The policy vacuum has ... been filled with equal parts white nationalists and social conservatives. The former includes the hosts of The Ensign Hour, a podcast whose hosts pine for a 'European homeland.' Former PPC candidate Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, meanwhile, is the party’s most prominent social conservative — a movement that by definition is anathema to Bernier’s own brand of libertarianism. 'There is a giant civil war in the PPC between the libertarians like Max and the social conservatives,' Isidorou says. 'Max knows it’s going on, he just doesn’t give a shit.'
"PPC could well have been a going concern in the upcoming election.... Bernier’s rise late last summer coincided with a similar rise in discontent with both Trudeau’s Liberals and the Conservative party’s ability to defeat them. Unimpressed by Conservative Andrew Scheer’s timidity, Isidorou’s ilk — young, motivated and, like Bernier, alarmed at what they see as an erosion of free speech in the country — are political orphans. Seemingly, the PPC was a natural home.
"There was a period ... where it seemed Bernier’s party could have wrought meaningful change in conservative politics in this country. Instead, it seems the PPC has become a gong show of racial politics, embarrassing diatribes and social conservative castoffs. And there’s more gong show to come ... says Isidorou. 'The crazies are now completely in control.'"
May 21, 2019 - Angelo Isidorou ... is a former PPC [People's Party of Canada] executive who has since become an outspoken critic of the party. Attracted to the libertarian, free speech planks espoused by the party and its founder/leader, former Conservative MP Maxime Bernier, Isidorou became disillusioned with the PPC for failing to disavow ... what he called 'the crazies' who had attached themselves to the party. Among them: Alain Deng, ... who once called Islam a 'disgusting religion' [and] is now the PPC candidate for the riding of Vancouver South. (I twice emailed Deng for comment, once in December and once this week. He didn’t respond.)...
"Deng is illustrative of how the PPC has gone from upstart party to potential threat to a veritable clown car in less than a year.... Far from being an isolated case, it seems loud, hateful and fundamentally unelectable elements within the party have taken over. 'We always thought we would outnumber the crazies. Now the crazies outnumber everyone else,' Isidorou says now... 'When I came to the PPC, the overall ethos was, "Look, it’s a new party and it’s going to attract people who are problematic." But with proper policies, a constitution, a national board, we would ice the crazies out'....
"Today, less than 250 days after Bernier officially registered the PPC in a hail of Twitter invective, the party has no constitution, no national board and little in the way of policies. Instead, it has Bernier and [PPC spokesman Martin] Masse — who, according to Isidorou, is largely responsible for the surreal, malignant Twitter stream appearing under Bernier’s name.
"The policy vacuum has ... been filled with equal parts white nationalists and social conservatives. The former includes the hosts of The Ensign Hour, a podcast whose hosts pine for a 'European homeland.' Former PPC candidate Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, meanwhile, is the party’s most prominent social conservative — a movement that by definition is anathema to Bernier’s own brand of libertarianism. 'There is a giant civil war in the PPC between the libertarians like Max and the social conservatives,' Isidorou says. 'Max knows it’s going on, he just doesn’t give a shit.'
"PPC could well have been a going concern in the upcoming election.... Bernier’s rise late last summer coincided with a similar rise in discontent with both Trudeau’s Liberals and the Conservative party’s ability to defeat them. Unimpressed by Conservative Andrew Scheer’s timidity, Isidorou’s ilk — young, motivated and, like Bernier, alarmed at what they see as an erosion of free speech in the country — are political orphans. Seemingly, the PPC was a natural home.
"There was a period ... where it seemed Bernier’s party could have wrought meaningful change in conservative politics in this country. Instead, it seems the PPC has become a gong show of racial politics, embarrassing diatribes and social conservative castoffs. And there’s more gong show to come ... says Isidorou. 'The crazies are now completely in control.'"
Read more: https://ipolitics.ca/2019/05/21/crazies-now-completely-in-control-of-ppc-says-former-executive/
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