Charles Adler Wonders What Happened to His Conservatives | The Tyee

Charles Adler is a conservative. These days, however, that does not necessarily equate to being a Conservative. The longtime radio and TV talk star, currently a columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press and host of a popular podcast, increasingly has found himself alienated from political parties carrying the banners of the right in Canada and the United States. A Q&A with Freda Huson and director-journalist Michael Toledano.Adler spoke with me about politics — past, present and future — from his Winnipeg home. The Tyee: How would you describe your own political journey over the last five or 10 years? Charles Adler: I guess the simple way of putting it is, I used to be pretty at home with the Conservative party. And then stuff started happening, in 2014-15. There was the barbaric hotline [the barbaric cultural practices hotline] or wherever the hell the thing was called. And this series of political slogans — Justin Trudeau is not ready, the whole paranoid thing about Muslims. Just a real dumbed-down populist version of conservatism really turned me off and made me feel like an idiot to identify with it.

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