IT is now easy to forget, but not so long ago, Florida governor Ron Desantis seemed ready to first win the Republicans. Mega donors were lineup Behind him. Its New York PostRupert Murdoch on behalf of the media ampire duplicated him “Unpleasant” On its front page. The polls showed him neck-neck with a scandal with Donald Trump. Desantis had probably invented a way to turn stuff into America again a great, less deplorable packaging that liked traditional Republican business interests and the newly influential right.
Then Desantis bombed the national stage. He was a A terrible retail politicianHis complete lack of charisma death in the early voting countries. He fell out in January 2024 after at least blowing $ 160 million Without any victory, show it.
Something similar seems to be Pierre Puilievre, leader of the Canadian Conservative Party. The Canadians are heading to the voting booth today, and if the polls are accurate, the state will choose the liberal government for the fourth consecutive term. Just a few months ago it would have been unthinkable. Conservatives enjoyed a A 25-point driver Justin Trudeau over the liberal party. But then Trump began to talk about the annexation of Canada, the deeply unpopular Trudeau resigned, former banker Mark Carney took his place and launched a trade war. Suddenly, Poilievre initiated – who has spent the last few years in his transformation and his party on Trump's image – sounded like an enemy. Now he has found himself in the same situation that Desantis once did. Two men are an object lesson in deficiencies trying to make Trumpism without a trump card.
Their similarities begin with personalities. Neither man exactly sympatheticTo. Both Poilevre and Desantis look and sound like overgrown children, and it has made them ridiculous. During his primary campaign, Desantis was unlike the accused Wearing your cowboy boots, eating your fingers with your fingers and wiping your other people. For his part, the Poilievre appeared Stop wearing glasses after comparable To Milhouse SimpsonsTo. (Unfortunately for himPoilevre without glasses still looks like a glass of glasses.)
At the same time, both men work hard like ordinary people, especially when it comes to them pronatalistic Obsessed with other people's bodies and sexual tendencies. For example, the puilievre cannot stop talking to women “Biological watches,” By driving the rival driver memorably Quima: “I don't think any woman would like to hear Pierre Puilievre talks about their bodies.” Would be a petty focus on their appearance and disposition cruelty not so central to their political brands. Poilievre and Desantis, both notoriously with a thin skinThere is an embodiment if you can recover it, but not to take it.
Which leads us to another challenge that both men face: they cannot stand in front of Trump. Even when they copied his language and the game book, they could not predict, control or overcome the man. Dessantis's main candidacy – Republicans wanted Trumpism without Trump, the basic prerequisite when the former president began to pay the media's attention and received a broad leadership in the polls. He was particularly brutal with Desantis and made fun of Its length and nameand accusing him of being pedophileTo.
The situation of Poilievre may be worse. Even more than Desantis, he criticized Trump's speech points, confronted ideology of awakening and globalist elite so often that liberals attack advertisingClips between Puilievre and Trump's speeches, just to drive home. But his campaign has worked hard in the midst of a revival of Canadian nationalism and the profound reluctance of the voter president.
Over the last decade, right -wing recovery has been driven by many comparisons around Trump and other leaders. However, most of these politicians-Hungarian Viktor Orban, the French Navy Le Pen, the Italian Giorgia melon, etc., are their own vocabulary and rely on the deep root traditions of their countries' reactionary populism. On the other hand, Desantis and Poilevre are mere imitators. It was particularly ugly in the Poilevre case; he imported cultural war dogma The USA even when the Canadian government ceased real US import mutual tariffsTo. There has never been a worse time to sound a Canadian politician.
In a sense, both Desantic and Poilevre are pathetic. They are classic Napoleon-Komplex figures: men with great dreams and self-esteem in conflict with their talents. As Desantis, it was believed that Poilevre was the face of the future of conservatism; It is known that he has told the Allies that he has There is no right to eliminate this competition. But it seems as he wants.
Of course, it is possible that the polls are wildly inaccurate and the Canadian Conservative Party will win somehow tonight. But at the moment, Poilevre, like Desantis, sees a terribly much like one of Trump's favorite insults: a loser.
