Far Rightwing Pot Calls Farther Rightwing Kettle Blueist.

As Leyland Cecco reports in the Guardian, a man who has spent his entire political career playing to  a far right base wherever and whenever he can find it is shocked (shocked, I tell you!), to learn that the political party he currently leads is filled to bursting with fellow travellers who are willing to ratchet up the crazy of that very same base to eleven:

...In a leaked recording of a meeting with caucus staff on Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney warned a far-right element – skeptical of coronavirus measures and wedded to conspiracy theories – could seize control of the party in the coming weeks as the United Conservatives hold a leadership review.

“I will not let this mainstream conservative party become an agent for extreme, hateful, intolerant, bigoted and crazy views. Sorry to be so blunt with you but you need to understand what the stakes are here,” he said, before alluding to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory with a warning that “people who think I am involved in a global conspiracy to traffic children” would show up to vote for his removal...

Gosh.

One can only wonder if there is a reason why the good Mr. Kenney left 'misogynist' off the list, above?

...Founded by Jesuits as St. Ignatius Academy in 1855, this religious institution (the University of San Francisco) was where a young student named Jason Kenney found an education that would serve him in life—not in his chosen major of philosophy, which he would never graduate from, but in a divisive brand of politics designed to elicit outrage and headlines.

In one notable incident, Kenney seized on a conflict involving the physical intimidation by men of women who were collecting signatures for a pro-choice petition. Siding against the women, and the right to freedom of speech, a righteous Kenney turned a minor incident into a conflagration that earned national attention as he threatened to take the matter all the way to the Pope...


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David Climenhaga has more on a how a base made rabid by a constant diet of rancid, red meat couldn't have turned on a nicer, more deservingly whiney guy...

Update, Sunday: Clearly,  the bunker air is truly heavy with desperation if it turns out the leak was engineered by Mr. Kenney's braintrust.

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