Nutty Jason Kenney, A History: Part 1
Jason as nationalist cowboy. Jason Kenney’s an interesting guy. He’s not likeable like Ralph Klein or Justin Trudeau. He’s not a policy wonk like his mentor, Stephen Harper. And, like Jim Prentice, he's a federal politician who's come to Alberta to make it big in provincial politics. So, what does he have going for him? First, he works 80 hour days. Second, he’s kind of nutty and in this day and age of populist rhetoric, people like nutty. Just think of Donald Trump’s brag when he was running for president. “I will build a Great Wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, Great Wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words” Who talks like that and who believes it? Nutty right? But the people ate it up chanting “Build the wall. Build the wall” in many of his speeches. Jason doesn’t say anything that nutty because, even here in Alberta, we don’t ...