Anyone who lived through the 1990s and early 2000s knows that when the Canadian right is divided, electoral success is next to impossible to achieve. Yet a new movement — largely driven by younger people and adopting some of the views espoused by big-government loving, free-market skeptical MAGA Republicans — is threatening to do just that.

As then-Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper noted back in 2003, the conservative movement in Canada has long rested on an alliance between “the economic and social conservative sides.” But if you listen to people on the so-called new right — also known as “ national conservatism ” or “ postliberalism ” — it was always a marriage of convenience rather than shared ideology.

Writing in the Without Diminishment Substack newsletter last week, pol

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