adma
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Yeah, it isn't a matter of people "warming up" to Del Duca; rather, it's a matter of Ontarians reverting to a generic safe-choice default. Del Duca might as well be Justin, as far as anyone cares.Agreed. I barely know who he is myself. Him not being a household name is putting it politely. Oddly, the NDP are in a similar boat with their non-entity of a leader. I don't doubt that Horwath is a perfectly nice person and means well, etc. etc., but she's about a charismatic and forceful as a wet strand of spaghetti. She's had her turn and has been completely ineffectual. For the good of her Party, she really should step down.
As for Thug, the only question seems to be whether he'll survive and lead his Party to defeat or if he'll be pushed first. If the latter, well...As delightful as that would be - oh, to see the look on his face when it happens!! - it would give him the option of grandstanding if the Cons dump him and move on to losing the next election anyway. I can hear him now: "Y'see? Y'see!?!? If they'd kept me as leader, we woulda won that election!!" And you know the usual media outlets would allow him to use them as megaphones.
I suppose there's also the prospect of him stepping down voluntarily. But that's just crazy talk. I think we all know the likeability of that happening.
And I somewhat beg to differ about Horwath; if she were such a useless nonentity, she wouldn't have gotten a third of the vote and a solid Official Opposition caucus in '18--and she didn't do that just because of toxic PC and Lib leaders. She's "known", and her negatives are still relatively low. *Her* problem is the inverse of Del Duca's: that of her party *not* being a generic safe-choice default, a media infrastructure still stubbornly conditioned t/w viewing the NDP as an inconsequential "third party"--and of course, Premier Ford's modus operandi being one of treating her and her caucus like a nails-on-chalkboard annoyance, "I won, you lost, nyaaah". So her problem is less one of lack of charisma, than of lack of oxygen--she and her party have been gaslighted to the margins...