Lorne Gunter: Emperors have always feared uncouth peasants. Kings have always worried about the destabilizing effects of sharing power with ambitious barons. And social snobs keep changing fashion, food trends and popular recreations so they can distinguish themselves from the riffraff.
So there’s nothing new about the Canadian political establishment slinging around the term “populist” in an attempt to discredit Conservative party leadership frontrunner Pierre Poilievre.
What is new is how hysterically fearful, how over-the-top our political elites have become. They seem genuinely to believe that millions of ordinary Canadians are one beer away from trying to tear apart our national institutions.
It’s that mentality that led to the Trudeau Liberals thinking it was necessary to impose the Emergencies Act to clear out the Freedom Convoy from downtown Ottawa.
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