{"id":8304,"date":"2018-10-13T03:34:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T03:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2018-10-13T03:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T03:35:12","slug":"my-my-what-a-surpise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8304","title":{"rendered":"My&#8230; my&#8230;what a surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump doesn\u2019t scare former prime minister Stephen Harper<\/p>\n<p>And while the bombastic, protectionist American president might make him \u201cuncomfortable,\u201d it\u2019s politicians like Bernie Sanders\u00a0who Harper says truly alarm him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/xconada-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/xconada-copy.jpg 757w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/xconada-copy-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at Donald Trump,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, there\u2019s things that I\u2019m uncomfortable with but the Bernie Sanders of the world or the Jeremy Corbyns in Britain are the ones that really, really frighten me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Con-Canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Con-Canada.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Con-Canada-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-Con-Canada-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So who is best-placed to address the concerns fuelling the populist spread?<\/p>\n<p>In Harper\u2019s view, conservatives, both in Canada and abroad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8311 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/market-economy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/market-economy.jpg 560w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/market-economy-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think conservatives are better placed to adapt because I think the fundamentals of what we stand for \u2014 the necessity of having a market economy, making that serve, you know, greater public interest, and also our belief in traditional institutions like <strong>faith, family, the nation state, nationalism<\/strong>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8313 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-market-economy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-market-economy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-market-economy-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Court-Painter-market-economy-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Donald Trump doesn\u2019t scare former prime minister Stephen Harper And while the bombastic, protectionist American president might make him \u201cuncomfortable,\u201d it\u2019s politicians like Bernie Sanders\u00a0who Harper says truly alarm him. \u201cI look at Donald Trump,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, there\u2019s things that I\u2019m uncomfortable with but the Bernie Sanders of the world or the Jeremy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=8304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My&#8230; my&#8230;what a surprise!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13343,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions\/13343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}