Please follow Cooper’s telegram channel “Honkey Night in Canada.” As always, the indent blocks are my commentary.  Who can lay claim to the legacy of 19th/20th century Populism? According to Stephen Harper’s keynote address at the Canada Strong and Free Network’s 2023 conference, the answer is Preston Manning’s Reform Party, in which Harper was a major figure. In Harper’s defining of populism, he referred to movements of the left, right and centre, who all had in common a concern for the hoi polloi, against the interests of industrialists, bankers, and others “who possessed enormous, monopolistic, economic power…were actually quite small … Continue reading Cooper: Refuting Reform