Conservatives must reject Trumpism and address voter anger rather than stoking it, says strategist

Longtime Conservative strategist Ken Boessenkool says he will no longer tolerate “casual Trumpism” in his personal or political life, and wants to see it stamped out of Canadian politics.

“In the past, some people said: ‘Oh, isn’t what Trump’s doing good’— and I would always say, ‘Well, Trump’s a horrible man,'” said Boessenkool, senior research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute and a former senior campaign advisor to former prime minister Stephen Harper.