The paranoid are out to get us

There should be zero tolerance for Trumpy conspiracy theories in the Conservative Party of Canada.

Ben Woodfinden draws the line at his fellow Canadian conservatives adopting Trumpist rhetoric and conspiracy theories:

…There is extremely dangerous rhetoric coming from across the political spectrum, but I have more responsibility to police people on my “team” than people who aren’t. And the rhetoric that this paranoid politics produces here too, not just in America, is worrying. 

Let me give you an example. Back in October, Leslyn Lewis, the Conservative Party’s rising star and someone that I was extremely enthusiastic about and supportive of during the leadership election wrote that “Canada is quietly going through a socialist coup.”

What? A coup is an attempt to overthrow a government by non-democratic means. Suggesting that a coup is taking place is no laughing matter. I don’t quibble with her using the word socialism. She describes Trudeau “as an evangelist for a new type of 21st-century socialism — a quiet and bloodless revolution that seeks to control our lives through economic d…