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    10 months ago

    Ford is a mobster, not a religious zealot.

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      10 months ago

      He’s also sneakier, and lies so well it’s hard to tell the truth from fiction.

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        10 months ago

        If you come in with the baseline that none of them tell the truth, it’s a lot easier to figure out who is lying.

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      10 months ago

      Ontario is also not Alberta: Smith’s cheques are signed by the oil industry, and you have to get deep into denialism to whitewash that industry, and denialism comes with a lot of anti-intellectual and protofascist baggage.

      Ford’s are signed by real-estate developers and small-business douchebags (and the Venn with them and organized crime on it, well, has some overlap). They’re a very different crew, and they prefer to operate in the shadows. Shouty religious zealotry results in unwanted attention, which is bad for business.