Much as we can't stand Trudeau and he's a terrible excuse for a leader, we're better off with him leading the liberal party than any other liberal. No matter who you put in his place, they'll just push Liberal Party ideology into the legislation, and anyone else in the party is more competent at pulling that off. Remember when the supposedly pro feminist Liberal caucus cheered, as Trudeau told them Wilson-Raybould and Philpott were being kicked out, for standing up to a Prime Minister who wanted Wilson to "manipulate" the law to make him look good? Any other MP would keep the Liberal ship on the same course. Trudeau is the best captain to sink it.
The Tool was one of the worst things to happen to us. He was polling to win, maybe even a majority. Then he got questioned on gun bans, and his idiotic response lost the momentum. Every conservative leader going forward is going to look at that, and weigh the odds on weather or not its worth it to support the firearms community and risk losing the federal election. O'Toole possibly put the final nail in our coffins.
The CPC is a federal party, not revolutionary movement. Our side needs to realize that. We need to be more strategic, less emotional. We're not voting for all things we want, because we don't have the numbers to achieve them. We're voting for the best outcome we can get, given the situation. The CPC needs to put forth a leader that can win an election in a country that votes 2/3 to the left, and not simply the party leader that tells the party faithful what they want to hear. SNC Lavlin, Aga Khan, Electoral reform betrayal, WE scandal, blackface; Trudeau shouldn't have been able to win the last two elections. And yet he did. I don't like to salt the wounds, but the CPC members who didn't vote Mackay in the last party election (the most likely candidate to win a federal election) essentially voted for Trudeau. As long the CPC fields candidates who can't win, Trudeau and the liberals will.