Internal dissent - as with Platner - should be at the bottom of the party while the leader soars above it all.

The leader beating up on his own supporters for impurity of conservative-ness, calling them “Liberals” if they are impure, has Trumpian, and indeed Stalinist overtones.

I really think a small number of Conservatives in southern rural AB and SK have given us both Smith and Poilievre (at that convention in Calgary that was really expensive to get to). And they, over the longer run, are saboteurs.

But, obviously, the leader isn’t going to crush the saboteurs - he is one.